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by Todd Stauffer
27 Repair 101
It’s happened to all of us: Your Mac won’t start up.
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Your monitor looks as muddy as a pig farm. Here are
the quick fixes every Mac addict should know.
by Todd Stauffer
30 All About Storage
Is FireWire 800 really twice as fast? Is RAID really worth
it? Why do DVD burners kinda suck? If you’re foraging
for storage, let us walk you through your options: big,
small, inside, and out. by Jeffy Milstead
38 April Fools’
It’s our 5th Annual Prank-
a-Palooza! This year, we’ve
got some doozies: Make
yourvictim’s Mac whisper
scary messages. Terrify your
favorite Unix-phobe. Make
a statement about your
Celine-loving friend’s
execrable music taste.
And more, by Jack Miller
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what makes them productive is your Mac. This
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HOWTO
64 Ask Us
New: Pop Quiz, a set of quick Q&As you can skim on
the bus, in the elevator, or on the can. Plus, printing to
shared Windows printers, creating multisession CDs,
and getting Unix info out of Mac OS X.
66 Share Files Remotely
Prone to leaving crucial files at
home or the office? Learn how
to set up your Mac to grab files
remotely from any location.
by Carol S. Holzbergand Kris Fong
70 Personalize
Your Form Letters
Peppering form letters with
personal references may be
enough to keep clients reading.
by Kris Fong and Rod Lawton
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Shadows
Groundhogs aren’t the only things
that cast a shadow; masked-out
subjects should, too. Keep your
photo composites looking real
by creating a digital shadow,
by Kris Fong
74 Create a
CD
Wanna share your iMovie
creations with folks who
don’t have a computer?
Create a VCD of your
work that can play in
a home DVD player for
easy boob-tubing,
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QUICK TIPS
...from this month's issue.
GET TO YOUR
DESKTOP. FAST
To instantly jump to your Desktop when
you’re In any Open or Save dialog, simply
press Command-D. From Ask Us, p64
LISTEN TO YOUR MAC
If your Mac beeps at you when It ’s trying
to start up. there’s a good chance that
a RAM module hasn’t been properly
installed or has worked its way loose.
From “Repair 101 ” p27
BALANGE YOUR RAM
SDRAM has speed specs: 3-2-3 SDRAM
is the slowest, while 2-2-2 is the fastest.
If you can, buy all 2-2-2 SDRAM, since
ntixihg and matching means the slowest
speed will prevail.
From “Supercharge Your Mac,” p18
GIVE RAID A CHANCE
If you're setting up a dual-drive software
FireWire RAID and you want to get the
fastest speed possible, plug each drive
into its own FireWire port on your Mac.
Frorn “All About Storage,” p30
DON’T USE CRACKED CDS
The Speed at the edge of a CD in an
ultra-high-speed drive can reach 150 to
200 mph. An old CD that has microscopic
cracks spinning it at that speed can fly
apart, destroying the drive along with it.
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06 MacAddlct April 2003
CONTENTS
a better machine, a better magazine.
94 Log Out
94 Letters
Big brother SHHes little brother’s iBook. Some of
you want games gruffer. Others want games gone.
A star Is born in the MacAddict staff movie, and
the father of the Power Mac takes us to school.
95 Contest
Show us your true colors and win an Epson Stylus
Photo 960 printer.
10 Editors’ Page
After years of uncertainty, Apple’s future is
now 100 percent secure— we’re takin’ over.
12 Get Info
Free software is falling from Linux and Unix
heaven— find out how to get your share.
Plus, Apple slashes prices and boosts
performance, color laser printers are now
affordable, shareware adds OS 9 file and
folder labels to OS X, and much more.
Give us this day our milk and cat food.
45 Reviews
46 12-inch PowerBook G4 notebook
59 Artisan Color Reference System 2l-inch CRT with
color calibrator
58 Big Disk 500GB FireWire hard drive
52 C-730 Ultra Zoom 3.2-megapixel digital camera
61 CopyPasle-X Clipboard enhancer
54 deskjel 450cbl portable inkjet printer
53 Oevideon external DVD-R/CD-RW drive
60 FI Championship Season 2000 racing game
60 Freedom Force role-playing game
61 HomePlug Ethernet Bridge network bridge
48 Keynote presentation software
49 Peak 3.2 audio-editing software
55 StoryBoard Quick 4 storyboarding software
61 SuperScrubber disk-sanitizing utility
50 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon strategy-based
first-person shooter
56 UZR 3D Professional 1.4 image-based
3D-modeling software
51 Virtual PC 6 with Windows XP Home Edition
PC-emulation software
58 Zip 750MB FireWire External Drive
removable-media drive
Less is more~way more.
62 The Hot List
The best of the best from recent reviews.
If the editors of /WacAc/c/Zcf went shopping,
this is what we’d buy.
So will the next zoom go to 11?
96 Shut Down
The glorious new 17-inch PowerBook’s way-cool
ambient light sensor technology had some tough
company in the Apple lab— check out some of the
sensors that didn’t quite make the cut.
Whoa! You really are
happy to see me!
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The ecstasy of computer-based non-tinear editing
applications is matched only by the agony of finishing a
project and cleaning out your hard drive, then getting
hit with additional changes. Instead of wasting hours
recreating the job from scratch, save and retrieve it
with Sony’s new Rough Cur Advanced Video
Editing Storage solution.
The Rough Cut system consolidates entire
projects including video and audio clips,
EDLs, graphics, animations - even scripts and
contracts. Sony provides everything you need:
a compact Sony AIT-2 backup drive, a supply of
high-density Sony AIT tapes to get you started,
a cable for computer connection and BESS9
AN editing backup software. Mezzo software runs
in the background, so you can save as you go.
The Rough Cut storage system works with Avid®
Media Composer®, Adobe® Premiere®, Apple®
Final Cut Pro®, and other applications running on
Macintosh® OS X v1 0.2 and earlier versions to OS 9.
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DO IT ALL
With 81 apps on this month’s Disc, there’s something
for everyone. Into music? Try the demo of the popular
audio app, Peak. Games? Burn rubber and your free time
with FI Championship. If you’d rather be productive, check
out CopyPaste, the Ahhhnold of Clipboards.
UZR 3D Pro demo
Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to create a digital 3D
model of anything you can take pictures of? That’s pretty
much the deal with UZR 3D Pro— and the best part is, all
you need is a digital camera or Webcam.
SuperScrubber demo
We’re not paranoid— not very, anyway— but we’d feel a
bit safer if we knew that when we erased a sensitive file,
it was really gone. Solid gone. Gone-enough-for-the-
military gone. Well, SuperScrubber’ll do that.
Mindless
Entertainment
Sometimes it’s nice
to just turn off your
mind, relax, and float
downstream. These
gentle time-wasters
can help.
You can’t resist a game
as cute as the Breakout
takeoff, Bongo Boogie.
if you’ve ever enjoyed
Tetris— and who
hasn’t?— you’re ripe
for Descender.
The addictive video
game that started it all
is back— and beefier —
in Pongjourney.
Helix: Destroying evH
eyeballs and headless
hooligans has never
been so relaxing.
AUDIO & MUSIC
Frogg 1.0.1
iSpeak It 1.1
Jasmine (OS 9} 1.5.6
Jasmine (OS )Q 1.5.6
MakingMusic 1.3
MuSing 1.0.6
NMP3 Ripper 0.5.7
Obelisk 3.0
Peak (OS 9) 3.2 trial
Peak (OS X) 3.2 trial
Peak 3 docs and tutorials
Peak G4 (OS X) 3.2 trial
PodManager 1.4.1
PodWorks 1.2.1
Sound Byte (Classic)
2.0.1
Sound Byte (OS X) 2.0.1
Synergy 0.8
Tactile12000 X 2.1.1
Transcribe 6.0
Transcribe X 6.0
Zerius Vocoder X 1.0
DEVELOPMENT
REALbasIc Carbon
4.5.2 trial
REALbasIc Classic
4.5.2 trial
Satimage osax 1.8.5
Satimage osax X 2.5.2
Smile 1.8.8
Smile X 2.5.2
FUN & GAMES
Bongo Boogie 1.1
Descender 1.0
FI Championship
1.0.2 demo
Freeverse Board
Games
Ghost Recon 1 .0 demo
Helix 1.0
Komi 1.0
Mah Jong Solitaire
1.25
Pongjourney 1.2
Quinn 1.1.1
SImHarbor 1.1.2
Simon Extreme 1.1
GRAPHICS &
MULTIMEDIA
DivXRay 2.0.1
inCInema 1.0
MacVCD 3.2.1
MacVCD X 4.1.6
QC 5.03
UZR 3D Pro 1.4.1 demo
VCD Builder 1.1
ZeboPhoto (Classic)
1 . 1.6
ZeboPhoto (OS X) 1.1.6
INTERFACE
Custom Splash
Installer 2.0
DockFun 3.6.7
iCan 1 .0.1
Labels X 1.1.1
Lioness 1.0d4
Safaricon 1.1.2
INTERNET &
COMMUNICATION
Acquisition 0.74
Netscape (Classic) 7.01
Netscape (OS X) 7.01
Zoe 0.3.7
PRODUCTIVITY
CalcuiatorMaX 2.0.2
Cumulus 5.5.1 demo
KuConta 2.1.5
MacDiCT 2.6
MacDICT X 2.6
MacJournai 2.1.1
ToDoXI.2
UTILITIES
CD Session Burner
1 , 0.1
CopyPaste 4.5
CopyPaste-X 1.5.2
CronnIX 2.0.2
Desktop Control
Suite 1.1
DiskTracker 2.2.2
DiskTracker (OS X) 2.2.2
DVD Capture 2.0
Gimp-Print 4.2.5
Kunvert 1.0.3
Mouse Recorder 1.2
OMCEdit1.4
OnMyCommandCM
1.4.1
SuperScrubber 1.0.1
demo
Web Dumper 1.7
Web Dumper X 1.7
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It’s All True
Y ou read it here first: MocAddict is in
final negotiations to acquire Apple
Computer. When we take over, here’s what
I, as Apple-Guy-in-Chief, propose to do.
When I’m the Apple overlord, my first
priority will be to make sure third-party
software developers don’t become as
extinct as those gas-pump jockeys who
once checked your oil.
Apple’s software hegemony didn’t start
yesterday. In the beginning there was
MacPaint, MacWrite, and MacDraw. Then
HyperCard. Then AppleWorks. Then the
floodgates opened, and iTunes, iMovie,
iPhoto, iDVD, iCal, Mail, Final Cut Express,
and Keynote took nibbles— nay, full-mouth
chomps— out of third-party developers’
hides. Now, don’t get me wrong— Apple
makes kick-ass software, and as I wrote
in this space last month, 1 believe that
because Apple is intimately aware of all
the powers of OS X, Aqua, Quartz Extreme,
et al, it’s uniquely positioned to create the
Mac’s best software.
But one reason Apple’s hardware is
pricey is that tons o’ cash is needed to feed
all of its in-house coders. So when I take
over Steve’s job, my first order of business
will be to reduce Apple’s hardware prices
sharply and put all iApps on sale at prices
comparable to those of their third-party
competitors. It’s brilliant: We user folks
will get cheaper Macs, third-party software
developers will get a fighting chance,
and Apple can prove it makes great stuff
by outselling its competitors at a decent
profit. Win-win-win.
Cool? Definitely. And it’ll happen soon:
At our negotiations hidden away in the
soon-to-be-filled-with-nuclear-waste
underground vaults of the Yucca Mountain
Repository Project, I believe I’ve twisted
enough Apple arms to make them agree
to turn over the company for one gross
of Frito-Lay BAKEN-ETS® Hot ’N Spicy
Flavored Fried Pork Cracklins in Grab ’n’
Go 6-ounce bags, plus a pony keg of Coors
Original. Luckily for us, the unpalatable
cafeteria fare at Yucca Mountain has
sapped Apple’s fiduciary acumen.
If you doubt my veracity, just think of
the likelihood of this takeover’s success,
then look at the month printed on the
front of this magazine— you just gotta
believe it’s all true.— /damson Deepdelver
of Brockenborings
* Annual salaries
shall be determined
by adding three
zeroes to the average
gas mileage of an
employee’s primary
vehicle, and then
multiplying byx/2,
where X equals the
age of the vehicle.
When MacAddict and
Apple are one, Rik
shall be known solely
by his Hobbit name:
Hamson Deepdelver
of Brockenborings.
• The use of the
phrases "reality-
distortion field,”
“drinking the Kool-Aid,” and “insanely
great” shall be punishable by a steel-cage
deathmatch with Monkey-Man Steve Ballmer,
Microsoft CEO.
• Employees of the newly merged MacAddict-
Apple conglomerate shall each and every
one be called by their Hobbit names, as
determined by Chris Wetherell’s Hobbit Name
generator {www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit
/default. asp).
• Ending a decades-long tradition, no Apple
press release shall conclude with “Apple
ignited the personal computer revolution in
the 1970s...” Releases shall henceforth wrap
up with “You will live in happiness too, like the
Oompa Loompa doompadee do.”
STAFF
RANTS
Q1: What will you change first about Apple?
Q2: What’s your long-term goal for Apple?
Mungo Chubb
of Deepholiow
What will you change first
about Apple?
1. Every Genius Bar in Apple
stores will now serve beer on
tap. 2. The name “iLife” must
go. Mungo has spokeni
What’s your long>term goal for Apple?
To keep the toilets clean. Really clean.
Clean enough to wash your hands, or
whatever, in.
Rosie Trample
of Woody End
Whet wifi you change first
about Apple?
ri! veto the lame music Steve
uses in his iMovie and iTunes
demos. Some Rancid would really get the
crowd going.
What’s your long-term goal for Apple?
Clearly, Apple employees would be much
happier in Kauai than in Cupertino— as
would the Mac magazine journalists who
would get flown in for press conferences.
Dimple Gamgee-Took
of Bywater
What will you change first
about Apple?
Packaging. If we decide to
continue the Puma- Jaguar-
Panther theme, the least
we could do is offer faux-fur
installation-disc sleeves.
What’s your long-term goal for Apple?
Peace on Earth, an end to world hunger, no
child left behind— y’know, the usual.
Sancho Peatfingers
of Brockenborings
What will you change first
about Apple?
For starters, all executive
committee members — not
just Steve— get a jet (we’ll
retrofit the parking lot, of course).
Then we’ll replant all the Apple campus
gardens with that crazy halfling Hobbit
weed. Woo-hool
What’s your long-term goal for Apple?
World domination — ^what else is there?
Azaelia Boffin
of Whitfurrows
What will you change first
about Apple?
I’ll politely inform Steve Jobs
to stop hallucinating that
one -button mice are better.
And then when he tries to fire me, I’ll
politely inform him that I’m his boss.
What's your long-term goal for Apple?
To migrate the USB and FireWire ports
to the front of the machine so users
don’t have to fish around under a desk
with a flashlight every time they want to
download some photos.
Marigold Hamwich
of Buckleberry Fern
What will you change first
about Apple?
I will transfer ownership of
that Gulfstream V from
Steve Jobs to myself.
What's your long-term goal for Apple?
To develop human prototypes based
on the heretofore grounded Steve Jobs
for use In psychological research and
development. Models will include the ID,
the ©Go, and the SuperEgo.
Elanor Maggot
What will you change first
about Apple?
The name and logo, for
starters. The company will
be known as the much
yummler and non-fiber-filled
Gummi Bear.
What’s your long-term goal for Apple?
To have Steve Jobs deliver the next five
MacAddict Expo keynotes just so I can
make him wear Gummi Bear-colored
lime, orange, grape, lemon, and
strawberry turtlenecks.
Orgulas Gamwich of
the Bree Gamwiches
What will you change first
about Apple?
I'll move the prices of
alt Apple hardware and
software one decimal point
to the left.
What’s your long-term goal for Apple?
To stay ahead of the idea-thieving
Wintel hordes by continuing to make
the best computers In the universe and
by making sure all Mac developers,
manufacturers, and vendors have
the help they need to grow Clan Mac.
May a thousand flowers bloom!
10 MacAddict April 2003
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Create your own software.”
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U\
counted a forest full
of trees by hand,
then I got REAL."
REALbasic is
so powerful
that professionals
use it yet so simple
beginners can have
their first application
up and running in
less than an hour.
With REALbasic,
you can;
$ Focus on your
ideas instead of the
things that make
programming
hard.
0 Make database
systems, utilities,
productivity tools,
and games—
almost any kind of
software you can
imagine!
% Create compiled,
native applications
for Macintosh and
Windows, using
the same code and
layout with just a
click of a button.
8 Use standards like
TCP/IP, SQU and
QuickTime.
What do you do when the software you really
want doesn't exist? Create your own with
REALbasic^. You don't have to be a
programmer to create your own software with
REALbasic, Just like you don't need to be an
accountant to crunch numbers with a
spreadsheet You can build YOUR OWN
powerful custom applications for Mac Classic,
Mac OS X, and Windows.
Tree growth. Tree rings. And a man on
a mission. Ben Bond-Lamberty is a forest
ecology researcher who uses tree rings to
study how forest fires affect tree growth.
The problem was, either he had to count the
rings by hand or find a better way.
Enter REALbasic. In less than six hours
Bond-Lamberty had a functioning
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Try REALbasic today for FREE.
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I
The REALbasic Demo is on the MacAddict CD
Y ou can spend thousands of dollars
on software, oryou can spend zero.
OS X*s Unix underbelly has
open-source developers migrating to
OS X, exposing Mac users to the wild,
wacky world of free Unix software.
“WeVe seen a lot of people come to our
open-source conference that used to be
dual-boot [and] that are running OS X now,”
says Chuck Toporek, the open-source and
XML editor at O’Reilly (www.oreilly.com),
a large publisher of technical books.
Toperek is referring to developers who
attend the popular annual O’Reilly Open
Source Conference, whose theme for 2003
is “embracing and extending proprietary
software.” Now that Apple has released the
public beta of Xll— the Unix/Linux graphic-
display system for Mac OS X— it will be even
easier for developers to port their Linux and
Unix apps to Mac OS X (see “It Goes
to Xll,” pl3).
FREE SPEECH
NOT FREE BEER
These developers are part of an idealistic
community more concerned with liberty
than with price. “You should think free as in
free speech, not as in free beer,” says the
GNU (pronounced guh-NEW) Project Web
site (www.gnu.org). Coordinated by the
Free Software Foundation (www.fsf.org),
the GNU Project’s acronym stands for GNU’S
Not Unix (a computer geek’s recursive joke).
It aims to create entirely free software with
no proprietary components. GNU software
combined with the free Linux kernel
became the basis for GNU-Linux
systems like Red Hat.
Users are free to run, copy,
distribute, and improve software
underthe GNU General Public
License (GPL), so long as
they pass along that right
to others, who can use and
modify the updated software.
A lesser form of the license
allows companies to hold
secret some proprietary
code. A third family
of non-GPL licenses,
called BSD (Berkeley
Software Distribution),
lets developers make
proprietary changes to
Get great software at a
great price: free.
open-source code without releasing
their changes.
That’s what Apple did. At the core of
OS X is a free, open-source operating
system called Darwin, which is based on
BSD Unix. Anyone can download and view
the Darwin source code and even suggest
improvements. (Of course, Apple controls
which changes get implemented.) In fact,
a host of OS X developer tools, such as the
Apache Web server, the GCC C compiler,
and the Emacs text editor, are free. For
more OS X open-source projects, see
www.apple.com/macosx/technologies
/darwin.html.
WHATS OUT THERE
Some free software projects have turned
into viable alternatives to expensive
packaged applications. Take MacGIMP
(www.macgimp.org), the OS X-compiled
version of the GNU Image Manipulation
Program (GIMP). “It has a lot of the same
features as Photoshop, and it’s free,”
says Rafe Levien, chief technologist at
Artifex Software, which makes GhostScript
(www.ghostscript.com), a free PostScript
The OroborOSX Window
Manager makes X11 windows
look and act like Mac windows.
Free software has turned into a viable alternative
to expensive packaged apps.
FREE
STYLE
Open-Source
Software Made for Mac
12 MacAddlct April 2003
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VideoLAN is an alternative
to Apple's DVD player.
of other open-source stuff, It will send
you to the Terminal to tweak config files.
In fact, a lot of open-source software
lacks a GUI and requires familiarity with
the Terminal and Unix commands. Start
boning up with books such as Unix
Power Tools (O’Relllly, www.oreitly.com,
$69.95) or Phil Lavigna's Fun with
Fink: Using Open Source Software in
Mac OSX(www.funwithfink.com).
Fun with Fink is a freely downloadable,
160-page PDF guide. As of press time,
author Phil Lavigna was updating the book
to reflect the latest version of Fink, which
supports Jaguar. The updated book should
be available by the time you read this.
Toperek’s advice: “Don't be afraid.
There are a lot of
things you can do
more effectively from
the command line than
with any GUI tool."
Intrepid Mac users
will be rewarded with
the sweet taste of free software
and the warm, fuzzy feeling of
supporting a maverick development
community.— A//?
OPEN SESAME
Open-Source Apps to Start Exploring
Unless otherwise mentioned, these and many more
open-source offerings can be found on Apple's Unix and
Open Source download page (www.apple.com/downloads
/macosx/unix_open_source).
puts an OS X face
on the Gimp image editor.
and PDF tool. Levien says GIMP is more
scriptable that Photoshop and stronger
when it comes to Integration with
Web-server applications. He adds that
Photoshop retains the advantage in
CMYK prepress functions.
Levien recommends that open-source
neophytes play around with MacGIMP
and the VideoLAN multimedia player
(www.videolan.org). Pro users should
download Fink (http://fink.sourceforge
.net), a package manager that gives you a
way to Install other Unix applications In OS
X. The professional-level film-retouching
software Film GIMP (www.filmgimp.org), for
example, requires you to Install Fink first.
(To find out about more open-source apps
for OS X, see “Open Sesame,” right.) In fact,
SourceForge.Net (http://sourceforge.net),
a huge open-source software development
Web site. Is a great place to start nosing
around for open-source apps.
FUN VERSUS FUNK
Installing apps like Fink, however, could
put you in a funk. As is the case with a lot
MacGIMP (www.macgimp.org)— a GUI-equipped photo editor.
EMacs— a popular command-line text editor.
VIM— an improved version of the popular V! text editor.
MPlayerOSX (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayerosx)—
a multimedia player.
VLC (www.videolan.org)— another multimedia player.
(It takes screenshots and plays DivXtoo.)
Apache— a powerful open-source Web server included in OS X.
Fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net)— a set of packages for
installing open-source software.
Film Gimp (www.filmgimp.org)— a
professional film-retouching tool.
GhostScript (www.ghostscnpt.com)— a PDF-
creation tool that's not super Mac friendly.
^ ON THE
^DISC
ITGOESTOXll!
Apple Releases Unix Windowing Environment for OS X
A pple made it easier for Unix and Linux developers to port
their apps to Mac OS X when it released a free public beta of
Xll for OS X (www.apple.com) at the San Francisco Mac Expo.
Xll, also called the X Window System, is the de facto
stat\dard graphic-display system for Unix- and Linux-based
operating systems. In other words, it does for Unix OSs what the
Quartz graphics engine and Aqua interface do for OS X; it gives
applications a way to draw lines, objects, pixels, text, and other
graphic elements on your screen.
There are already other open-source Xll implementations— such
as Xfree86 project— that run in OS X. The significance of Apple's
implementation (which is based on the Xfree86 project) is that it
works with Apple’s Quartz graphics system. It's roof/ess, which
means it allows Quartz (with the Aqua interface) and Xll apps to
run side by side. You could even cut and paste between Xll and OS
X applications.
The final, free release of Xll will be available later this year, so
expect to see OS X ports of all kinds of Unix apps soon —NR
April 2003 MacAddIct 13
]A GET INFO ^
I ^ V the news of the month in bite-size chunks
DROQLWORTHY
Sexy Stuff We Can’t Wait to Get Our Mitts On
Stylus Digital 4
Olympus • www.olympus.com • $399 street
(Stylus 300 Digital), $499 street (Stylus 400 Digital)
T he Stylus is so chic that New York City’s Metropolitan
Museum of Art exhibited the popular film camera
within its hallowed halls. Now the Stylus lineup walks
on the wild side with its first-ever digital lineup-the 3.2-
megapixel Stylus 300 Digital ($399) and 4-megapixel
Stylus 400 Digital ($499). Both silvery point-and-shoot
models have a weatherproof sliding clamshell lens cover
and should be available by the time you read this.— /V/?
This tinsel-colored point-and-shoot Is
one of the first-ever digital cameras In
Olympus’s highfalutin’ Stylus lineup. i
4- Cold Chisel Slim
Super Combo Drive
Century Global * www.centuryglobal.com • $399
T here may be no such thing as a free lunch, but this
tiny, low-cost, bus-powered FireWire DVD-R/RW/RAM
and CD-R/RW/ROM drive is the equivalent of an all-you-
can-eat $1.99 buffet. Available in both soft black (shown
left) and gleaming chrome, it’s also a lot more attractive
than a BIT.— A//?
SURROUND SOUND, SORT OF
Boosting Music on the Mac
W hen it comes to surround sound, we
do envy those PC punks. The Mac,
including Apple’s DVD player, still doesn’t
support true Dolby Digital sound. Two new
Sonica Theater’s Circle
Surround II technology
decodes surround-sound
information.
products, however, will turn your face a
lighter shade of green.
M-Audio’s Sonica Theater external USB
sound card ($99.99 street, www.m-audio
.com) and Revolution internal PCI sound
card ($99.99 street) simulate serious
surround sound on your Mac.
The problem Is that Apple
doesn’t license the official Dolby
Digital surround-sound decoders,
even though OS X’s Core Audio does
support multiple channels of audio and
Dolby AAC audio compression. Word on
the street is that OS X will soon support 4.1
audio (which hasn’t happened as of press
time). That's a promising start, because
with 4.1- audio, you’ll hear sound traveling
left, right, front, and back. That’s good,
but it’s not great, since 5.1 surround sound
is all the rage right now for playing games
With M-Audio’s USB
external I/O device, you can rig up a
home theater when you’re not at home.
and watching DVDs on a PC-based home-
theater system.
Enter M-Audio. The Sonica Theater,
14 MacAddlct April 2003
photography courtesy of M-AUDlO PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF CENTURY GLOBAL PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF OLYMPUS
MOVE OVER,
INKJET
Color Laser Printers Get Cheaper
Y OU might never need Kinko's again. With prices plummeting and print
speeds skyrocketing, color laser printers are becoming an attractive
option for home and small businesses. The reason is the newer single-pass
engines found inside these printers, which can print all colors at once in a faster
and more cost-effective process. Of course, color laser printers still use more
toner than their monochrome cousins, but check out these PostScript-printing,
network-ready color models.— Dav/d Schioss
MINOLTA-QMS MAGiCOLOR 2350 EN
www.minolta-qms.com, $1,099
Resolution 1,200 dpi
Print Speed 4 ppm (color), 18 ppm
(black and white)
Standard Memory/IVIaximum Memory
128MB/384MB
Processor 200MHz
Ports 10/1 OOBase-T Ethernet, USB 1.1,
parallel (optional Bluetooth and 802.11b
expansion cards available soon)
Our Take Print speeds on the Magicolor 2350
EN won't break any records, but the low price
opens the door to a whole new category of
consumer. Manual duplexing is possible, and
a tray for automatic duplexing is optional.
This is one of the
lowest-cost color
laser printers out
there.
XEROX PHASER 8200/N
www.officeprinting.xerox.com, $1 ,899
Resolution 1,000 dpi
Print Speed 16 ppm (color), 16 ppm
(black and white)
Standard Memory/Maximum Memory
64MB/256MB
Processor 300MHz
Ports 10/100Base-T Ethernet, USB 1.1, parallel
Our Take The Xerox 8200 isn’t a laser printer,
since It relies on the thermal transfer of wax sticks
to print color. This printer’s price, speed, specs,
and marketing, however, make it a worthy
competitor to the rest of these color laser printers.
Even better, the melting wax sticks make the room
smell like crayons.
/A
The Xerox 8,200
isn’t technically a
color laser printer,
but it works as well
as one.
GCC ELITE COLOR 16DN
www.gcctech.com, $2,299
Resolution 1,200 dpi
Print Speed 17 ppm (color),
17 ppm (black and white)
Standard Memory/Maximum Memory
256MB/512MB
Processor 300MHz
Ports 10/1 OOBase-T Ethernet, USB 2.0
Our Take GCC Technologies is one of the GCC Technologies Is an
oldest but— undeservedly— least known faithful with a solid
names in the Mac printer business. Its or-iaser offer ng.
newly announced 16DN comes with built-in automatic duplexing
and two high-capacity paper trays — great for a workgroup or
small office. It should be available by the time you read this.
LEXMARK C750N
www.lexmark.com, $2,399
Resolution 1,200 dpi
Print Speed 20 ppm (color), 20 ppm
(black and white) »
Standard Memory/Maximum Memory
64MB/256MB
Processor 350MHz
Ports 10/100Base-T Ethernet, USB 1.1,
parallel (optional 802.11b card available
for $199)
Our Take This workhorse can couple with
an add-on multifunction unit to transform
into a scanning, copying, and faxing beast.
Of course, the add-on costs $4,000 extra.
Spring for the pricey
multifunction add-on,
and this multitalented
printer can be your very
own Kinko’s.
a revamp of M-Audio’s existing Sonica
product {Reviews, Jan/03, p49), gives
you 24-bit, 96KHz audio I/O— unlike the
original device, which could only output
audio. Sonica Theater’s Circle Surround
il technology decodes surround-sound
information, so the Sonica Theater works
with a greater number of surround-sound
speakers than the Sonica did. (The latter
required receivers and speakers with built-
in surround-sound decoding.) For slightly
better audio quality, M-Audio’s Revolution
internal PCI sound card gives you 24-bit,
192KHz audio I/O.
A warning to audio purists: You won’t
get the true 7.1 audio surround sound
advertised on the box, since Apple can’t
officially decode Dolby Digital or DTS
surround sound. According to M-Audio,
Circle Surround II can simulate 6.1
surround sound on the Mac and most
people won’t be able to tell the difference.
Both of these products come bundled
with the VideoLan Client Dolby Digital-
Enabled DVD Player, a Dolby Digital-
friendly alternative to the Apple DVD player.
The VideoLan player can transmit surround
data but still relies on Circle Surround II to
open it up and decode it.
Some will think M-Audio’s simulated
surround sound is great. Others will think
it comes frustratingly close, but no cigar.
Until Apple supports true surround sound,
however, these products are the best way to
give your Mac that home-theater feel.— A//?
Surround-sound your Mac with
M -Audio’s Revolution PCI card.
April 2003 MacAddIct 15
Mummy’s bad breath sold separately.
MUMMY DEAREST
Walk Like an Egyptian in
Mummy Maze
I f you like mazes, mummies, and the thrill of
running for your life, check out Mummy Maze
on a CD nearyou (no dice required). MacPlay
packed PopCap’s free Maze puzzler with
pyramids, mazes, and 3D-rendered graphics.
In Mummy Maze, you*re an explorer deep Inside
a pyramid. Using simple mouse or keyboard
commands, you must navigate your way out
of yourtomb through
a series of mazes with
the faster mummy in
hot pursuit. Walls, dead
ends, and other traps
await you, but they also help keep the
mummy away. Mummy Maze Is one of those
easy-to-learn but difficult-to-master numbers—
you'll need your thinking cap for some tricky
maze navigation.—
Mummy Maze Deluxe
MacPiay
www.macplay.com
$ 19.99
Available: Now
Worshiping your
pets is optional.
A fish, a fish, oh
fishy fish!
WHEN CONTROLLING TINY
HUMANS ISN'T ENOUGH
New Expansion Pack Brings Pets to The Sims
Y ou've had your Hot Date, the House Party was a blast, you’re back from Vacation,
but you want more. You want critters. The Sims: Unleashed, the newest
expansion pack for the monster Sims franchise, lets you adopt a
dog, cat, bird, fish, or lizard (from the pet store, of course). Teach
your new pet tricks, scold its bad behavior, or invest in training.
You can then take your petto work, walk It in one of the new
parks, or even have your dog attack your neighbor. You also get
optimized performance and more Sims perks, including new homes,
bigger neighborhoods, and new jobs.— Sr/on Chaffin
The Sims Unleashed
Aspyr
www.aspyr.com
$ 29.95
Available: Now
MONEY, MONEY,
MONEY
Fast-Paced Pattern
BO DEREK'S
GOT NOTHING
ON THIS NUMBER
Aladdin Bundles Ten Shareware
Games for OS X
Matching in the
Tradition of Tetris
t’s a good thing Aladdin can’t count. They’ve
gone on a rampage, rounding up 13 games
for a bundle it calls Ten for X: Games. The CD
Includes 3D Bridge Deluxe, AirBurst, Astrosquid,
Bommo Sweeper X,
Bugdom 2, Burning
Monkey Puzzle Lab,
Classic Cribbage,
Cro-Mag Rally, Deep
Trouble, Geneforge, jinni Zeala, Video Poker
5000, and WingNuts. While there are no
new titles in the list, $49.99 buys you
licenses to all of these X games.— SC
Ten for X: Games
Aladdin Systems
www.aladdinsys.com
$ 49.99
Available: Now
Y ou might already have seen
these glittery coins in PopCap’s
Big Money Flash Web game, which
MacPlay has polished up and released secrets are revealed at last...
commercially on CD. Fast-paced Big
Money Deluxe plays like Tetris and has you collecting
points (money) by clicking
groups of matching colored
coins. New rows of coinsrrise
up from below as the ones you
collect disappear. Don’t let them
stack to the top, or the alarms will go off, the lights
will flash, and the tension will rise. Beware: Like other Tetris takes Vegas— match
matching games. Big Money Deluxe sucks you in.— 5C colons for cash in Big Money.
Big Money Deluxe
MacPlay
www.macpiay.com
$ 19.99
Available: Now
MORE PUSH, LESS CASH
Power Mac, iMac, eMac, and LCD display prices are moving in the right direction. Down.
Y OU think you have problems? What
if you were the poor schlub who
thumped down $6,798 fora dual
1.25GHz Power Mac and a 23-inch Cinema
HD display on January 27, only to wake up
on January 28 to discover Apple had slashed
the price of the same setup to $3,998?
Applets Mac and LCD lines took a serious
price dive recently, while at the same
time Apple beefed up their features and
performance. The new Power Mac trio, still
based on the Mirror Drive Door case and
motherboard, is led by a dual 1.42GHz
($2,699) and rounded out by dual 1.25GHz
($1,999) and single IGHz ($1,499) models.
All have dual FireWire 400 and single
FireWire 800 ports, can be equipped with
Bluetooth ($50) and 54-Mbps AirPort
Extreme ($99) modules, and have 64MB of
DDR video RAM— on an ATI Radeon 9000
Pro in the two higher-end models and on
an nVidia GeForce4 MX in the bargain-
basement beauty. The way-wicked 128MB
Radeon 9700 Pro and nVidia GeForce4
Titanium video cards are options at $300
for the top two machines and $350 for the
IGHz model. A SuperDrive comes standard
only at the high end; on the other two
models, which come equipped with Combo
drives, it’s a $200 option— and both the
SuperDrive and the Combo drive are twice
as fast as previous versions.
iMac shoppers: The new IGHz 17-inch
iMac now includes a 133MHz system
bus and the same DDR-based memory
architecture as the newest Power Macs.
At $1,799, 54-Mbps AirPort Extreme
and Bluetooth are options, but standard
equipment includes 256MB DDR SDRAM,
an 80GB hard drive, and the same speedy
SuperDrive that’s in the new Power Macs
(sorry, no FireWire 800). The 15-inch iMac
remains in the line— for now— and has been
boosted to 800MHz with a price drop from
$1,499 to $1,299. And speaking of price
drops, a 700MHz eMac is now $999 (from
$1,099), though its 800MHz, SuperDrive-
equipped big brother remains at $1,299.
The new price tags on the 17-inch Apple
Studio Display and the 23-inch Cinema HD
Display— $699 and $1,999, respectively—
make buying a flat-panel a more enticing
proposition, and the addition of a new
1,680-by-l, 050-pixel, $1,299 Cinema 20-
incher makes maxing out your credit card
even more tempting.— /?//c/Wys/ews/c/
Does the
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matter?
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LABELS X 1.1.1
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L abels, the Mac OS’s color-coded file-labeling system, went AWOL
in OS X. Unsanity’s Labels X brings it back. This haxie (that’s slang
for an OS X hack) gives you a System Preference pane that lets you
color-code and prioritize files and folders. You can apply up to seven colors
with customizable names to a file by control-clicking its
icon or by choosing a color from the Labels column in OS X’s
List view. Labels X Is just one more treat that sweetens the
die-hard OS 9 user’s switch to X— Andrew Tokuda
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Bring your old Mac up to speed;
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Ultimate Hardware Tool Kit
L ie back. Get comfortable. Now, how do the words dual
processors, DDR SDRAM, ATA/100, and video cards with
more memory than you got in your whole Mac Just two years
ago make you feel? Sweaty-palmed? lealous? Or perhaps
you feel inexplicably angry with [choose one of the following]:
a) yourself b) your god c) Steve Jobs
d) both b and c e) c is my b
Don’t worry. We understand. If you purchased a new Mac a
year or two ago, the specs and prices of the latest Power Mac G4s
are enough to put you flat on your back on your psychiatrist’s
couch. But before you pop a Prozac, consider this: Hard drives,
RAM, and other upgrade components have never been cheaper.
With a small investment and a few choice parts, you can bring
many older machines up to par with Apple’s current swag. Well,
almost. And here’s another thing to consider: Unlike Apple’s new
machines, you can boot an upgraded Mac into OS 9.
So if you can’t drop dough on a new Mac right now— or you still
need to boot into 9— you can get your existing Mac close to the
latest specs with nothing more than a Phillips-head screwdriver
and your standard-issue, not-quite-maxed-out credit card. It’s a
great alternative to buying new— at least until that new G5 comes
around. (And if that happens this year, then c really will be our b.)
by Todd Stauffer
Speed &
Power
The biggest complaint people have about their aging Macs (aside
from the sagging side doors and the bags under their drives)
is that they seem to fall behind a step or two. Of course, Macs
don't really get slower— applications get more demanding. For
example, if you were to launch Word 1.0 on a Mac Plus running
System 6.0.8, it would still seem relatively sprightly.
Speeding up your Mac means attacking bottlenecks that
impede its ability to move around data and instructions, calculate
them, and reflect that information on your display. Roughly in
decreasing order of importance, these bottlenecks include:
© RAM The less RAM you have, the more often your Mac has to
referto your hard disk to find data, thus slowing things down.
© Video processing Having slow (or no) graphics
acceleration and inadequate video RAM can slowyour Mac when
it’s running applications that use or require acceleration— OS
10.2, for example, and most games.
© Cache RAM Cache RAM holds data and instructions that
the processor needs to access quickly. Very quickly. Often you
can’t upgrade cache RAM on its own (at least, not on new Power
Macs), but you can do it via a processor upgrade card.
© Processor All things being equal, the slower your CPU, the
slower your Mac. Simple as that.
Surprised that upgrading the CPU is at the bottom of the
list? You’re not alone. Most people think a new, fast processor
equals a new, fast Mac. That’s only partially true. If you have
bottlenecks in other areas, you may experience little to no
benefit from a processor upgrade.
RAM
Take a Blue-and-White PowerMac G3/400, outfit it with 512MB
of RAM, and you’ve got a Mac that can run OS 10.2 and Adobe
InDesign. If you don’t believe us, stop by the office of this
article’s author— he has an artist laying out a magazine on that
very machine (can you tell Todd’s a cheap SOB?). He’s even got
a beige G3/266 with 384MB of RAM running OS 9.2 that he uses
to create tabloid-size PDF pages— and no, we didn't reprint this
article from our September 1999 issue.
If your Mac has at least a PowerPC G3 processor, It’s got some
April 2003 MacAddlct 19
life in it, as long as you boost its RAM— we recommend
a minimum of Haifa gigabyte. You heard us. You can get away
with less, but RAM is cheap and— especially if you’re running
OS X— your Mac will love you for It.
Know Your RAM
So, what sort of RAM does your Mac need? It depends on your
model. Nearly all PowerPC-based Macs use DIMMs (dual inline
memory modules), although because of their limited case space
iMacs and most laptops use SO-DIMMs (small outline DIMMs).
Older Macs, as in pre-PowerPC and some first-generation
PowerPC Macs, such as the 6100, 7100, and 8100, use SIMMs
(single inline memory modules). All you need to know about the
difference between SIMMs and DIMMs is the way you install
them— SIMMs go into their slots at an angle, while DIMMs go
straight down into an available memory slot.
Just as important as a RAM module’s form factor is the actual
RAM technology. Find your model in the list below for guidance
on what kind of RAM you need. By the way, if you have a machine
released in the past couple of years, Apple has a great Web site
(www.info.apple.com/usen/cip/index.html) that can help you
put in “customer-installable parts” like RAM and AirPort cards.
O Mirrored Drive Door Power Mac G4s, 12-inch
or 17-inch PowerBooks, spring 2003 17-inch
iMacs These Macs require a type of RAM that Apple introduced
in the Xserve— DDR SDRAM (double data rate synchronous
dynamic RAM). DDR SDRAM works by transferring data on both
edges of a clock cycle, the uptick and the downtick. When you
buy DDR RAM, you should match it to your Mac’s main bus speed
(either 133MHz or 167MHz), although you can use higher-speed
RAM with lower-speed Macs— it just runs at the lower speed.
© Oider G4s If you have a pre-Mirrored Drive Door G4 (or a G4
Cube), you most likely need PC133 SDRAM. That’s synchronous
DRAM that runs at 133MHz, which is the bus speed of Power
Mac G4s built in January 2001 or later. The original Power Mac
G4 models— those with 350MHZ to 500MHz processors— have
lOOMHz system buses and therefore can get away with PCIOO
SDRAM (SDRAM is backward compatible).
© G3s Blue-and-White G3s use PCIOO SDRAM, but beige G3
systems, with their 66MHz bus, take 66MHz SDRAM DIMMs. And
watch out if you’re upgrading a beige G3. in the desktop models.
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When shopping for RAM, it's important to buy from
dealers familiar with the nuances of various Mac
models. In addition to the usual MacWhatever.com suspects—
MacWarehouse.com, MacConnection.com, MacZone.com, and
MacMaH.com — we recommend:
Crucial (www.crucialcom). This site sells its own name-brand
RAM and offers good prices and guarantees,
MCE Technologies (www.mce.com). tf you have a PowerBook
or an iBook, youTe home.
NewerBAM GURU {www.newerram.comJ. This company’s
GURU (Guide to RAM Upgrades) software provides tips and help
with RAM module types.
Other World Computing {www.maesales.com). This
well-organized site is chock-full of information about which
RAM module Is right for you,
RAM Jet (WWW. ramjet com). This company's RAM is inexpensive
and Its site is easy to maneuver,
Trans Internationat (www.transintLcom)- You can get good,
specific information here, at! welt organized, Mac by Mac,
SDRAM has speed specs: 3-2-3 SDRAM is the slowest,
while 2-2-2 is the fastest. If you can, buy all 2-2-2 SDRAM, since
mixing and matching means the slowest speed will prevail. Apple
hasn’t always shipped 2-2-2 with Its models, so you may have
to replace existing DIMMs to get optimum speeds. There’s no
standard way to check if you have 2-2-2 RAM — sometimes a DIMM
will say 2-2-2 on it, other times the part number may contain 222,
CL2, or something similar.
some slots don’t accept certain tall DIMMs, so shop carefully
for RAM that’s designed to fit. There are also differences
in RAM support based on the logic-board revision of your G3
desktop (check out http://docs.info.apple.com/artlde
.html?artnum=24924 to find out what revision you have). For
instance, Rev. 3 logic boards can support three 256MB modules
fora maximum of 768MB, accordingto Apple.
© iMacs Tray-loading iMacs use PC66 SDRAM, slot-loaders use
PCIOO SDRAM, and most iMac G4s use PC133 SDRAM, all in SO-
DIMM format. Tray-loading iMacs have a quirk: The lower DIMM
socket, which you access by removing the logic board, accepts
only a 1.25-inch module (not the standard 1.5-Inch SO-DIMM).
Some RAM vendors aren’t aware of this limitation, so wise ’em up.
© eMacs eMac 700s use PCIOO SDRAM, while eMac 800s use
PC133 SDRAM. You can remove and replace the base RAM with a
higher-capacity module, if you want.
© Laptops PowerBook 63s, PowerBook G4/400S to G4/500S,
and iBooks use SO-DIMM SDRAM. These days, PCIOO is pretty
much the slowest RAM available, so you can load up your ’Book
with either that or PC133 RAM. Most PowerBooks have upper
and lower SO-DIMM slots. If you’re upgrading a PowerBook G3
Wall Street or Lombard, be aware that they require 1.25-inch
modules, while the Pismo can handle two 2-inch modules. All
PowerBook G4 models use PC133 SDRAM SO-DlMMs except
the Lilliputian 12-inch PowerBook G4, which uses PC2100 DDR
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POWER MAC G4 OWNERS
Be careful when shopping for RAM for Power Mac
: Some RAM manufacturers make DIMM modules that are
compatible with all G4s (despite some slight differences between
the RAM architecture in early and later models), while others
differentiate between the earliest PCI -based graphics models—
code-named Yikes— and other G4s.
SDRAM, and the Brobdingnagian 17-inch PowerBook G4, which
uses PC2700 DDR SDRAM.
© Older Power Macs Geriatric Power Macs use 60- or 70-
nanosecond FPM (fast page memory) DIMMs. Afew models— the
PowerMac 4400, 5500, and 6500 and the Performa 6400/200
with built-in Zip drive— support EDO (extended data out) DIMMs.
The 4400 series requires 3,3-volt EDO RAM, whereas the others
require 5-volt EDO. If youTe upgrading a Power Mac 7200, Apple
says you should avoid EDO DIMMs altogether. Other models can
use either FPM or EDO, although it’s not a good idea to mix and
match in the same memory bank— plus there’s no benefit to EDO
if a machine is not optimized to take advantage of it.
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GRAPHICS CARDS
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There are only two major companies in the biz, so there’s not a
whole tot of options to choose from.
ATI Radeon 8500 and Radeon 9000 Pro Mac Edition
($199 and $169.99, www.ati>com). For the most part, these two
cards offer the same performance, although the 9000 supports
ADC and DVI while the 8500 also supports output to a TV. With
64MB of DDR video memory, both cards wilt work in either an
AGP 3X or an AGP 4X slot. You may, however, want to hold out
for the Mac version of the Radeon 9700, a kilter gamers' card
due out this spring .
ATI Radeon 7000 Mae Edition ($129). This PCI card has
32MB of DDR video memory. This is a good choice for older Macs
that lack AGP. You won't get OS X acceleration (since Quartz
Extreme only works on AGP cards), but your games and 2D
performance wilt be snappier
nVidia GeFopce4 TEtantum ($399, www.apple.com). While
Apple says the Ti will only work in an AGP 4X slot, the folks at
nVidia teli us you can use it In, say, your Sawtooth's 2X slot. With
128MB of DDR video memory, this is the current high-end card of
choice— at least until the ATI Radeon 9700 comes out.
GRAPHICS
ACCELERATION
After RAM, graphics acceleration is the second-biggest
performance bottleneck— especially if you play games or perform
graphics-intensive work like high-end animation. And now that
OS 10.2 jaguar’s Quartz Extreme takes constant advantage of
graphics acceleration, you can enjoy kick-ass performance if
you have both graphics acceleration and the required 16MB or
more of video RAM.
A graphics accelerator is essentially a computer within a
computer. It has a processor and RAM, and it handles the
processing of the polygons, transparency, shading, and other
elements that go into creating 3D graphics. A graphics card Is the
math whiz you wish you could have been. An accelerator makes it
possible to offload things like high-end game graphics from your
main CPU, so your Mac can worry about responding to your input
while trying not to laugh at your pitiful fighting moves.
AGP Versus PCI
Today’s graphics accelerators slide into either a PCI or an AGP
slot (sorry, IMac and laptop owners— only Power Mac users can
upgrade their video cards). The AGP slot, which is in nearly all
PowerMac G4 models, is specifically designed to accommodate
high-speed graphics cards. Although Apple ships a graphics
card in that slot, you can replace it with a higher-speed or dual-
display card, oryou can add a second card to a PCI slot.
There are two types of AGP slots: 2X and 4X. As you’d suspect,
4X is faster. Remember, though, that many AGP cards can
autosense the slot speed and compensate, so you can use a
4X card in a 2X slot (albeit slowly).
Upgrade Choices
Currently, the sole manufacturer of refa/7 graphics accelerators
for Power Macs is ATI. nVidia, the other big player, only provides
chip technology (and not the actual boards)— you have to buy
nVidia cards from Apple.
Buy as much accelerator as you can afford. If you’ve got the
bucks, opt for a high-end card that supports both pixel and
vertex shading, such as ATI’s Radeon 9000 or nVidia’s GeForce4
Titanium. Programmable pixel and vertex shaders allow game
developers to include sophisticated real-time effects in their
games— if you like exploding viscera, these shaders are your cup
of blood. ..uh, tea. Expect pixel and vertex shading to become
more prevalent in next-generation games such as Doom ill.
Before you install a graphics card, you might need to install
its software drivers first. Installer software puts drivers for
acceleration on your hard drive, plus in some cases a Control
Panel or System Preference pane to give you finer control over
the accelerator’s features.
Installing a video-card upgrade is child’s play (although you
might not want to let your child do this, just in case). Shut down,
ground yourself, unplug the Mac, and install the card.
PROCESSOR CARDS
Yes, processors come a little lower on the upgrade totem pole,
but if you’ve got enough RAM and graphics acceleration, a
processor upgrade can take your Mac to the next level with a
more powerful chip, a higher clock speed, and better and more
cache memory.
The two major manufacturers of processor upgrades are
Sonnet Technologies (www.sonnettech.com) and PowerLogix
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BUHEn BEUiPPE
BEIGE G3 OWNERS
A small percentage of beige G3s aren’t compatible
with PowerPC G4 upgrades unless you replace the VRM (voltage
regulator module), which controls the amount of power the
processor receives. If your beige boy has a VRM manufactured by
Royal Technology (the company name is on the VRM, which sits in
a slot near your PRAM battery), you must replace that component
before you upgrade. See www.ccidomain.com/mac/vrm-ultra
/index.htm for details on the problem and the $79.95 solution.
(www.powerlogix.com). A new low-cost upstart named
GigaDesigns (www.gigadesigns.com) appeared too late to make it
into this article— but not too late for us to gag at its crass “G Spot”
ad campaign. Sonnet cards are plug-and-go, while PowerLogix
cards are for the most part highly tweakable. Which approach you
prefer depends mostly on your personality. Do you want to futz
around with switches or dials to see if you can eke out a tiny bit
of extra speed? Or do you want to snap it in and forget it? Don’t
answer too quickly— both approaches have their value.
Power Mac Upgrades
There are two types of processor upgrades for PowerMac G3s
and G4s. G3s and PCI Graphics G4s (aka Yikes) take a ZIF (zero
insertion force) socket upgrade— you remove the processor itself
from the logic board (carefully!) and install a replacement (see
‘‘Perform a ZlRfy Upgrade,” p23).
Later Power Mac G4 models take a daughtercard upgrade.
With these, you replace a circuit board with a card that includes
a faster processor and, in most cases, additional Level 3 cache.
There are also dual-processor card upgrades for many later
Power Mac G4 models (check Sonnet’s or PowerLogix’s Web site
to see if your model is down with doublin’).
Earlier Power Mac models that sport PCI slots (everything from
the 7300 to the 9600) also use a daughtercard upgrade— the
cards are a little different, but the Idea is the same.
Processor upgrades generally have a direct relationship to
the bus speed of a Mac. Before the G3s came out, most Power
Macs had bus speeds of 40MHz or 50MHz. However, Sonnet has
recently come up with a workaround that allows upgrade cards
for PCI machines to run at more than 10 times the machine’s bus
speed. You can now get upgrades as powerful as an 800MHz G4,
Decided to upgrade your processor? Then pull out your credit ^
card, launch Safari, and start shopping. ^
Sonnet Techtiofogfes (www.sannettech.com). Sonnet
offers tons of upgrades for PCI-based, daughtercard, and
ZlF-socket machines. Its most impressive offerings include
its 800MHz upgrades for PCI-based Macs and its 1.2GHz
daughtercard upgrades. '
PowerLogix (www.powerlogix.com). Among PowerLogix's
offerings are duai-processor upgrades for late-model Power
Mac G4s and upgrades tor a wide range of PowerBooks.
Newer Technology (www.newertech.com). Back from the
dead, Newer otters a PowerBook G3 Pismo upgrade, a ZIF-socket
upgrade for G3s and G4 Yikes. and some PowerBook accessories.
Other World Computing {www.macsafes.com). This reseller
makes a few cards of its own, and offers cards from major
manufacturers such as the now-defunct XLR8 and the
new-to-the-scene GigaDesigns (www.gigadestgns. com). .■ ' ■
BUBEP. BEUJRRE
SIX-SLOT POWER MAG OWNERS
Some G4 upgrade cards (particularly those in the
350MHz to 500MHz range) will cause problems in six-slot Power
Mac models such as the Power Mac 9600: Three of the slots stop
working (whoops). The workaround will cost ya — you have to buy
a newer G4 card, such as Sonnet’s 800MHz models, which don’t
appear to cause the same problem.
as opposed to the old limit of400MHz or 500MHz— a significant
boost for any Power Mac that originally had a PowerPC 604
processor (remember those?).
PowerBook and iMac Upgrades
So everyone (and by everyone we mean Apple) says you can’t
upgrade iMacs and laptops. Sure, these machines don’t have
the tweaking potential of Power Macs, but you can still have
some fun. For example, you can upgrade the early iMacs (Rev.
A to D)— but you can’t tinker with the later models. You can also
upgrade most PowerBook G3s.
If there’s one problem with CPU upgrades, it’s that they
generally make your Mac a bit more temperamental than one with
an Apple-Installed CPU. Direct ZIF upgrades are the best— your
Mac won’t even know what hit it. Some daughtercard upgrades
require that you install additional software (a driver or enabler),
which you must update when new Mac OS versions come out.
But you’ll need to wait for the upgrade manufacturer to update
the software before you can move to a new OS.
A Power Mac G4 (AGP) or later takes a daughtercard CPU upgrade.
A Power Mac G3 takes a ZIF socket CPU upgrade.
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Storage &
Connections
Once youVe gotten past speed issues, the next step is to add
some storage to your aging Mac. Today hard disks are cheap and
you can add them internally, externally, or.. .er... those are your
two options. (See "All About Storage,” p30, fora full discussion
of the wonderful world of storage.) Removable storage has also
gotten cheaper and more interesting, with CD-RW, DVD-RW,
and USB keychain drives that make the floppy disk (which many
peers still use) officially look pathetic.
INTERNAL HARD
DRIVES
Sure, you can opt for the many external FireWire and USB 2.0
hard drives out there when you update your hard drive. But for
those of you who get a rush from opening up a Mac (and let's
face it, that's what this article is all about, isn’t it?), you must go
internal. You have two choices when it comes to internal hard
drives: You can replace your existing drive or add another one,
either by slipping it into a free internal drive bay or by simply
snapping it into a free PCI slot using a hard drive-equiped PCI
card, such as one from Sonnet’s nifty Tempo HD line.
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Perform a ZIFfy Upgrade
If you’re Intimidated by the thought of putting a new processor
in your Mac, don't be. Here we demonstrate how easy it is by
showing you how we upgraded a Blue-and-White G3M00 to a
Sonnet Encore/ZIFG4/500.
Shut down your Mac, and then ground yourself with either
8 a grounding strap or by touching metal on your Mac before
unplugging it.
■■■S Open up your Mac and remove the heat sink from the CPU.
■■■■ You need to pry off the little bar (press down on its top and
pry up on its side) to make the heat sink pop off.
You’ve got to pry off the retaining bar to remove the heat sink.
■■■8 Unlock the CPU’s socket-lift the bar next to the CPU
>h 8 by pulling the bar slightly away from the CPU and then
swinging it up. Remove the original GPU, placing it in the
antistatic bag that contained your upgrade.
Raise the bar so you can remove the CPU.
8 8 Align the upgrade CPU with the slot— there's a pin absent
"■■S on the bottom of the upgrade, which matches the gap on
the ZIF socket. Drop the CPU into the socket— if it's aligned right,
it should slip into the ZIF socket with little more than a tap. If it
doesn't go in easily, don't force it Double-check the alignment
of the pins and try again.
HU Lower the locking bar, and you're set. If you hear beeps
■h 8 when the Mac tries to start up, you may not have seated
the processor correctly; head back to step 1.
SCSI and ATA
In most SCSI-based Macs, you can add another drive with no
trouble. In some late-model Power Mac G3 and Power Mac G4
models, you can add one more ATA drive. If you’re the lucky
owner of the Mirrored Drive Door Power Mac, you can add three
additional internal drives. If you want to add ATA drives to an
older Mac or to a maxed-out Power Mac G3 or G4, you need a
PCI card that offers ATA or high-speed SCSI support (see
“Expansion Cards,” p25, for more information).
Got a beige Power Mac G3? It has both an ATA Internal drive
and a SCSI cable for adding SCSI drives. Before that, most beige
Macs (with the exception of some Performa models) were SCSI
through and through. If your beige Mac needs some storage
breathing room and you’ve got an available drive bay, try to
track down a narrow (50-pin) SCSI drive. It's tough to find a true
If your Power Mac has a bracket for another drive, it can accept a
second (and sometimes more) ATA drive without an add-on card.
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® 50-pin drive these days— more often youUl find an 80-pin SCA
^ (single connector attachment) drive with a 50-pin adapter; this
works fine if your case isn’t too tight for the adapter.
If you’re planning to add a SCSI drive, you need to assign it a
unique SCSI ID. You also need to terminate it if it’s the last device
in the chain— and no, we’re not talking Schwarzenegger, we’re
talking flicking a termination switch or moving a jumper if you’re
lucky, or snapping on a resistor pack if you’re not. An ATA device
simply needs to be in either slave or master mode, depending on
whether there’s another master drive on that particular ATA bus.
If there is, set the new ATA drive to be the slave drive.
By the way, ATA drives are almost completely backward
compatible (except in some early Performa models)— for
example, you can use an ATA/100 drive on an ATA/66 bus.
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Add a Second Drive
Adding a second hard drive is as easy as pie— eating it,
not baking it.
-g Shut down your Mac, ground yourself, and open up
S your machine.
■■■8 Set any jumpers or DIP switches on the drive, including
mill termination, SCSI number, ATA slave -ni aster mode, and
so on. To get specifics on how to configure your jumpers or DIP
switches, check with your drive manufacturer or read the manual.
Configure the jumpers as needed.
■■■S Locate an open bay, connect the power and drive Interface
mmmt Cables to the drive, secure the drive, and start up your Mac.
Make sure your second drive is in place with its seat belt pulled
tightly across its lap (that is, screw it in tightly).
REMOVABLE DRIVES
Thanks to the proliferation of cheap FireWire drives and the
popularity of CD and DVD, we’ve been able to give finicky storage
media like the Jaz a happy (or unhappy, if you work for Iomega)
sendoff. Since CD and DVD drives have become ubiquitous, you
probably want to upgrade that old optical drive or add a second
one. Although most of you will add these drives externally. Power
Mac users can pop one into the extra drive bay that supports
internal models.
If you are adding an internal drive, you need to connect it via
either SCSI or ATAPI— the removable ATA standard. If you have
a colorful Power Mac G3 or Power Mac G4, you can either swap
out the current drive or add an ATAPI drive in its second drive bay
(for instructions, see “Add Your Own SuperDrive,” below). Older
Macs generally support a SCSI device in their second, open drive
bay. Again, for more information about removable-drive options
and products, see “All About Storage,” p30.
► HDUI-TD
Add Your Own SuperDrive
If you bought your Mac before the SuperDrive craze commenced,
no worries. You can add your own SuperDrive, aka Pioneer DVR-
A05 or DVR-105 ($299.95, available from www.macsales.com).
Unfortunately, this drive has a few quirks— for one, it can cras)i
your Mac fairly regularly. Also, we recommend using the drive
In OS IG.2.2 or later— OS 9 and this drive aren’t exactly a match
made in heaven,
Here's how the installation goes for a Blue-and-White G3 or
Power Mac G4:
^g Shut down your
■ Mac and ground
yourself. Unplug the
Mac, then open the
case and locate the
two plastic tabs that
attach to the bezel
covering your Mac’s
optical drives. Press
inward on those tabs
and then swing the
bezel out and away
from the Mac.
■«g Remove the two retaining screws that hold the removable
imlm drive cage in place. Slide the cage out a bit, then
disconnect the ribbon cable and power connector from the back
of your optical driven (Pull these connectors by their plastic
bases^ not by the cables themselves.) Now slide the entire cage
out and place
it upside-down
on your table.
Remove the
screws, or
else you’re
screwed.
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY TODD STAUFFER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY TODD STAUFFER
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Uftimate Hardware Tool Kit Sl
■■■S Remove the
mamt scfows that
hold the existing
CD/DVD drive in
place, and then
slide that drive
out of the cage.
Replace the old
drive with the
Pioneer one,
using the same
screws to secure it
to the drive cage.
S I Slide the
"■■S drive cage
partway back
into the Mac and
reconnect the
cables. Slide the
cage the rest of
the way in and
secure it with the
retaining screws.
Replace the
bezel, dose your
Mac, plug it in,
and start it up.
Your Mac should instantly recognize the Pioneer drive as a
DVD-RW burner— pop in a disc and Disc Burner’s dialog will
appear in the Finder. What about giving your DVDs a pretty
interface, you say? You can buy iDVD 3 as part of Apple’s iLife
($49, www.apple.com). Once installed, iDVD should work with the
Pioneer drive— although Apple claims that it shouldn't (We actually
tested with IDVD 2.1, and it worked for us.) Now one caveat: We
weren’t able to test with IDVD 3, since it was released after press
time. But we’re hoping that IDVD 3 isn’t less compatible.
A couple of tips: The Pioneer drive is a bit more of a headache
in OS 9.x, and you may need to upgrade the drive’s firmware
to get around some Kernel Panic problems in OS X (but only
if that firmware update comes out for Mac— Pioneer’s most
recent firmware updates just offer a PC updater). The current
workaround for avoiding crashes is to turn off all Sleep mode
functions in the Energy Saver pane. Also, If your Mac didn’t
have a DVD drive before you upgraded, you may have to run
the Additional
Packages
installer on Disc
2 of the OS X
CD to install
your DVD player
application.
A screenshot
never Hes: iDVD
is burning a DVD
movie via our
self-installed
Pioneer AOS. Too
cool — we hope
you’re as lucky.
Release your old drive from its cage and
replace it with the Pioneer.
Connect your new drive and slide it Into
your Mac.
BU^En f:3ELIiPRE
POWER MAC 6400, 6500, AND TWENTIETH
ANNIVERSARY MAG OWNERS
Some dual-port expansion cards are incompatible with
these models, so consider a card that only offers one type of
connector — although we’ll wager that the majority of you aren’t
lucky Twentieth Anniversary Mac owners.
EXPANSION CARDS
Are you a beige Power Mac user with a serious serial and ADB
complex? Then you’re ripe for an upgrade. Pronto. Luckily, there’s
no shortage of PCI-based cards that allow you to add more ports
to your Mac— whether those ports are FireWire (400 or in the near
future, 800), USB (1.1 or 2.0), Ethernet, SCSI, or older serial ports.
Compatibility Issues
The trick with upgrade cards is compatibility. First, you need
a card that works with the Mac OS version you’re running. All
of them require at least OS 8.6, and many cards fare better in
OS 9.0.4 or later because of improved USB Implementation.
Most FireWire and USB cards are compatible with OS 10.1.5 or
later native drivers, but in OS 9, you may need to install Apple’s
Adapter Card Support add-on drivers, which should be available
from your card manufacturer or from Apple’s support site
(www.apple.com/support).
Cards that add USB 2.0 ports do exist, but we don’t think
they’re all that useful unless you use external storage devices
that you also want to plug into— ewwww— a PC.
Another reason to buy upgrade cards is so you can add
internal disk-expansion capabilities. For instance, to add
ATA/133 support, check out Sonnet Technologies’ Tempo
ATA133 card ($99.95, www.sonnettech.com) orSIlG’s UltraATA
133/100 Pro card ($104.99, www.slig.com)— both allow you to
add up to four snappy ATA/133 drives.
Non-PCI Macs
What about other Macs? In general, you can’t deck out any iMac,
eMac, or iBook with fancy cards— aside from an AirPort card.
(Early iMacs don’t have an AirPort slot, but slot-loading iMacs
and IMacG4s do.)
If you’re looking to add ports to your Mac, here are a few vendors
that will help you out.
Adaptec (www.adaptec.com). If you need to add SCSI
conrrectivity, Adaptec's your savior.
Belk}n Comportente (www.belkin.com). Belkin offers FireWire
and combo PCI and CardBus cards, along with all types of cables,
hubs, and connectors,
iogear (www.iogear.com) . A good place for USB 2.0 and FireWire
PCI and CardBus cards, as well as Bluetooth adapters.
Orange Micro (www.orangemicro.com). This company makes
FireWire, USB- FireWire, and USB 2.0 cards in both PCI and
CardBus varieties.
StIG {www.siig.com]. You can buy ATA/133 expansion cards here.
Sannet Technologies (www.sonnettech.com). Sonnet offers a
bevy of upgrade cards, including a combo card, the Tempo Trio,
that jncludes USB 2,0, FireWire 400, and ATA/133; and a PCi
hard -drive card, the Tempo HD.
April 2003 MacAldlct 25
If you have a PowerBook, though, you can upgrade it via its
PC Card slot(s). PowerBook G4s generally have one slot (a Type
II) whereas most PowerBook G3 models have two Type II or one
Type III slot. (The type refers to the slot's height— Type 111 slots are
bigger.) PC Card slots, particularly those that take CardBus cards,
offer a great way to add all sorts of features, including networking
connectivity, USB, FireWire, memory-card readers, and even
Bluetooth. All PowerBook G3s (aside from the original PowerBook
G3 3500 Kanga model) and PowerBook G4s support CardBus. □
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Say you've got a vintage PCI -based Power Mac and you're
trying to upgrade it to OS X. Apple isn't supporting OS X on that
machine, plus that old Mac doesn’t have the muscle to run OS X
anyway. Well, you can make the old dog learn a new trick, but for
a price—yoursot//. OK, we're exaggerating. But you may need to
be patient, because you're gonna see more crashing than usual.
-g Begin with the RAM. Ideally you want at least 256MB of
S RAM, and it'd be nice if it was in neat little modules all from
the same Mac-friendly vendor. Note that some processor cards
prefer that you toss any older RAM modules lower than 16MB
in capacity, as they may not be fast enough for the processor
upgrade you're going to make.
■■■; Upgrade the hard disk. You're going to need a lot of storage
■■■■ space for OS X— a simple installation takes up 1.5GB.
Consider sticking with your Mac's native interface when choosing
a new drive, which may mean adding or replacing a SCSI disk In
your Mac. (If your Mac supports ATA natively, then. ..yippee!) Yeah,
SCSI is more expensive, but the alternative is to introduce another
variable (namely, a PCI card to support ATA hard drives) into
the mix. If you do opt for an ATA card, verify that the vendor has
certified it OS X compatible. (Some older cards aren't compatible,
and some require firmware updates or similar tweaks to make
them work with OS X.)
Format and partition. Format your drive In HFS+ (aka
■n$ Hierarchical File System Plus, or Mac OS Extended format)
with Apple’s Drive Setup, just to get rid of third-party drivers
that may not work with OS X. You may also want to partition
the drive, especially if you plan to use the Classic mode. In that
case, consider three partitions: one for OS 9.1 and your upgrade-
enabler extension, one for OS X, and a third for OS 9.2.2 without
the upgrade extension, which your Mac will use to run Classic.
J g Upgrade the processor. In a PCI-based Mac, you need
special software to convince your processor upgrade to run
OS X. And because of the driver software, OS X will be less stable
and you'll have to depend on the man ufacturer of your card for
software that enables you to use newer versions of OS X. Suck it
up. A processor upgrade is your only choice if you want to keep
your dinosaur.
Sonnet’s Tempo Trio card gives you FireWire, USB, and ATA/133
ports, all on one easy-to-install PCI card.
g"« Install OS 9.1. Install OS 9.1 on your Mac for a Sonnet or
■hS PowerLoglx upgrade, or the highest supported Mac OS
priorto X for other upgrades.
Add USB. If you're running OS X on an old beige Power Mac,
Immi you probably want at least a USB card— OS X supports
some ADB devices, but no serial devices otherthan modems.
Follow the enabler's Instructions. If you're using a
S Sonnet card, install the Sonnet PCI X Installer ($29.95,
www.sonnettech.com/download5/osx_upgrade_sw.html).
For PowerLoglx cards, install XPostFacto (free, or $10 if you
want tech support; http://eshop.macsales.eom/OSXCenter
/XPostFacto), an open-source solution for getting older Macs
to run OS X.
u
Install OS X. Once you've done the enabler's bidding, you
should be able to install OS X.
g«g Enable the cache.
ml Turn on your Mac's
L2 or backside cache.
To do so, use Sonnet's X
Tune-up or PowerLogix's
CacheControlX (both free).
Or check out L2CacheConfig
(free, http://eshop
.macsales.com/OSXCenter
/XPostFacto/framework
.cfm?page=L2CacheConfig
.html). Once you’ve
enabled the cache, you
should be computing at
full speed. Enjoy!
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Here we’re using PowerLogix’s
CacheControl to turn the backside
cache off and on.
" Check the support. When (OK, If) your Mac
i Imml crashes, dig into the support FAQs and forums
atboth the manufacturer's sites and Accelerate Your Mac
(www.xlrSyourmac.com), which does a great job of tracing
the issues and problems with upgrade cards. Oh, and while
you're at it, check for software-enabler updates every so often,
particularly before you update the Mac 05. In fact, you might as
well turn off the Software Update feature in System Preferences,
since you need to install updates from your card manufacturer
before Installing any OS X updates.
^ Todd Stauffer Is theauthororcoauthorof more than 25 computing books, including the upcoming Macworld Mac Upgrade and Repair Bible, third edition
W (Wiley and Sons). He’s also the publisher of Mac-Upgrade.com. His background, as you might imagine, makes him a pri 2 ed guest at cocktail parties.
26 MacAddlct April 2003
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I Vs probably happened to you: MacDeath.
Your Mac won’t start up, no matter how
hard you punch the power button. Panic
sets in. Visions of data you didn’t back up
rush through your head. You hyperventilate.
You fear your life is over.
But wait! Before you start to weep
inconsolably, take heart: There’s plenty
you can do to troubleshoot and repair your
Mac. Oh, sure, your dead Mac might be
permanently hosed. But it might not be.
Here’s a basic primer on how to troubleshoot
major problem areas: your Mac, hard drive,
and display. These tips may be basic, but
they’re what every Mac user should do
before running to the local repair shop.
by Todd Stauffer
When Good
Macs Go Bad
Although it’s scary when your Mac refuses to start up, remember
that the solution often doesn’t have anything to do with the Mac
itself. Perhaps you have a bad external drive plugged in. Maybe
your video card came loose. Here are seven simple steps to help
you home in on the problem.
1. Make sure your Mac is plugged in, “Well, duh,”you
say— but you shouldn’t just assume your Mac’s got juice. Pets,
cleaning people, or your own twitchy feet can do funny things.
2. Check your keyboard.
Make sure your keyboard
is plugged in— you may be
trying to turn on your Mac
from a power button that’s not
connected. Try the one located
on your Mac. If your keyboard
is plugged in and your Mac isn’t
responding, try unplugging the
keyboard and restarting— your
keyboard may be the problem.
3. Check your monitor.
If you can hear the disk, the
fan, or the startup sound, but
your screen is as black as a
spammeister’s soul, check the
monitor connection. Open up
your Mac and make sure the
video card is securely seated
in its slot (especially if you’ve
been digging around inside your Mac recently). If you haven’t
screwed down your card, a tug of the monitor cable may have
worked it loose.
4. Check the external devices. Unplug everything
and see if your Mac will start up. If it does, try plugging in your
peripherals one by one and start up after each change to isolate
the problem. Doesn’t work? Try them In different ports.
5. Look inside.
Especially if you’ve
just completed an
upgrade, check
the inside of your
machine to make
sure everything’s
cool. Check that
RAM is seated
properly, processor
cards are installed
correctly, and
expansion cards
are firmly set in
their slots. Also,
if you’ve recently
installed a CPU
card, you may need to press the reset button found on many
Power Mac motherboards (see “Perform a Serious Hardware
Reset,” p28).
6. Suspect your PRAM battery. If your Mac still won’t
start up, you might need to replace the PRAM battery. Also, some
Macs encounter video trouble (the Mac starts up but you see
nothing onscreen) when the PRAM battery is getting low. if this
happens to you, you’re one of the unlucky few (you might also
want to avoid Vegas) who has an older Mac or Performa. Some
pre-PowerPC Performas, AV Quadras, and members of the Power
Mac 6100 series are particularly susceptible.
Sometimes keyboards do go
bad and can prevent your Mac
from starting up.
Make sure that at! of your cards and RAM
are seated correctly.
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7. if you have a PowerBook or iBook, check its
main battery. You may have a problem such as a poorly
seated battery or one that can no longer hold a charge— they
do poop out after a few years of hard work. Also, you may need
to reset the Power Manager (see http://docs.info.apple.com
/article.html?artnum=14449 to find out how to do that on your
particular laptop).
If none of these tips helps your cause, you may be having a
power-supply problem. Head to a Mac-authorized repair center—
and check whether your health plan covers grief counseling for
when you receive the repair bill.
Strange
Beeps &
Sounds
WeVe become accustomed to the deep, rich startup tones that
indicate your Mac is healthy, so it can be disconcerting when you
hear weird beeping or other unfamiliar sounds (kinda like hearing
Eminem when you're expecting John Denver).
A beeping Mac at startup probably Indicates a problem with
a RAM module that simply hasn't been properly installed or has
worked its way loose. That may or may not be the case, but one
can always hope, can't one?
O Beige Macs Instead of the startup chime, you might hear
the sound of breaking glass. That means trouble with RAM— try
replacing any new RAM you recently Installed or swapping your
RAM from slot to slot.
Sometimes beige Macs also play musical notes. That may
mean you have a problem with RAM, although Apple says to make
sure, you should experiment by starting up from your system CD.
If your Mac starts up, your problem is not RAM, but the OS—
troubleshoot for a conflict or do a clean reinstall of the Mac OS.
O Early Colorful Macs (iMacs, Power Mac G3s and G4s,
and iBooks pre-October 1999) IfyourMacis beeping on
startup, it's trying to send you a message via the number of
times It beeps (your Mac's version of SOS). One beep means the
Mac thinks it has no RAM; two beeps mean the installed RAM is
incompatible; three beeps mean the RAM didn't pass tests;
four or five beeps mean a problem with ROM; and six
beeps mean your internal AirPort card has been wirelessly
autoupgraded to AirPort Extreme by Apple via IEEE-802. 11m
microwave transmissions. (Just kidding on the six-beeps thing.
Wishful-thinking geek humor.)
O Recent Macs (iMacs, iBooks, eMacs, Power Macs, Xserve
post-October 1999). Again, your machine is telling you what's
wrong by the number of times it beeps. The first four sets of
beeps mean the same as in the early colorful Macs (see above).
However, five beeps mean the Mac either can’t find or can't
use the processor. Check to make sure your processor card or
socketed CPU is installed correctly.
► HDUJ TO
Perform a Serious Hardware Reset
Most Power Mac logic boards have a button that can cure,
seemingly dead Macs. Apple originally dubbed it the Cuda button
(because it resets the Cuda controller chip), but started calling It
the PMU (power management unit) button with the AGP graphics
Power Macs. When you replace a major component in your Mac,
resetting the Cuda chip is often a good idea and can bring a Mac
that won't power up back to life. To reset the Cuda chip, simply
press that eensy-teensy button on your Mac's logic board.
Ifthat doesn't work, try removing the PRAM battery (it usually
looks like a shorter, stubbier AA battery, although some older
ones are cubical). Take it out for about 10 minutes, put it back in,
and try to start up again.
ProssloQ the Cuda button (which is often red) may restore
life td your Mao.
Dangerous
Driving
The fact that hard drives have moving parts, build up heat, and
have MTBF (mean time between failure) ratings means that
eventually every single one of them will die. The best solution to
a dead hard drive is a regular backup plan— use software such as
Backup from Apple's online .Mac service, the powerful Retrospect
from Dantz ($49 to $129, www.dantz.com), or LaCie’s simple
SilverKeeper (free, www.silverkeeper.com). For more tips on
backing up, see “All About Storage,” p30.
If your hard disk isn't quite dead but is acting as erratically as
a freshman at his first frat party, back up your data immediately.
Then test the drive's directory structure using Apple Disk Utility’s
First Aid feature (OSX) or Disk First Aid (OS 9 and earlier)— a
more powerful diagnostic tool such as Disk Doctor, part of Norton
Utilities ($99, www.symantec.com), can sniff out additional signs
of impending doom. If your drive's data directories aren’t the
problem, then software such as Drive 10 ($69.95) orTechTool Pro
($97.98) from Micromat (www.micromat.com) can perform some
important hardware tests without destroying data. (For more on
how disk utilities work, see “Be Prepared,” Mar/03, p36.)
If your drive appears to have hardware issues and you're
feeling either broke or lucky, one option is to reformat it, either
with Apple's own Disk Utility or Drive Setup or with a third-party
utility. During a low-level formatting process, the software will
map out the drive's bad sectors so they won't be used for storing
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data, thus avoiding potential corruption. It's sort of like joining
the Merchant Marines to get out of the old ‘hood and away from
Uncle Vito and the Family— you'll never be completely free of them
(or of disk corruption), but at least you'll save your sanity (or data)
in the meantime.
Unaffectionate
Displays
Displays can do strange things sometimes. Some of the
problems are easy to fix; others mean your monitor is going the
way of free Apple email. If you don't get the picture, troubleshoot
using these six steps:
1. Check your cables. Make sure that the display is
plugged in and connected to your Mac's video output, and that
your Mac is running. If this solves your problem, buy a Lotto
ticket— you’re one lucky ducky.
2. Force a restart. If you’ve changed screen resolutions or
your Mac appears to be running but no image appears onscreen,
try pressing the power button on your keyboard or on your Mac,
then pressing the R key. On most Macs, this causes a restart.
When your Mac restarts, it should sense the display card's
properties (“Captain, I sense a flat-panel display.. .with a deep
yearning”) and start up in a compatible resolution.
3. Reset your Mac^ — hard. Press the reset button or hold
down your Mac's power button for 10 seconds to hard-reset your
Mac. Then zap your PRAM by holding down Command-Option-
P-R Immediately after hearing the startup chord. Hold that pose
until you’ve heard the startup sound at least two more times.
Release the keys and your Mac will start up again— and hopefully
the display will spring to life.
4. Swap cards. If you have more than one video card, or if
you've recently installed a new card, try removing the new or
second card and testing with your original video card. Also, move
your card to a different PCI slot (only if your video card is PCI,
obviously).
5. Replace the PRAM battery. Apple notes that a dead
PRAM battery can affect video, particularly in the Power Mac
6100 series. You won't see an image even though you’ll hear the
Mac itself whir to life.
6. Try different power sources, if your monitor is not
giving off any light or sound, try a different power cable and plug
the display into different wall outlets. Don't laugh— this actually
works. Occasionally.
If none of these tactics brings your display back to life, take it
in for repairs. Sorry.
CRT Woes
If you still have your Mac hooked up to one of those 50-pound
cathode-ray-tube dealies that Steve has declared passe, you may
experience certain image issues. Luckily, you can take care of many
problems yourself.
A wavy or muddled picture can sometimes be the result of
magnetic Interference— try moving audio speakers, phones, and
other monitors away from your display. Also, certain CRTs have a
north-south or east-west orientation; if the screen is splotchy or
wavy, rotateyour display— urn, and your desk and chair— 90
degrees and see if that improves the picture. Seriously.
Magnetic buildup may cause a splotchy, wavy, blurry display.
You can combat it with your display's built-in degaussing feature;
check your manual to find out how to use it (CRT iMacs, by the way,
degauss automatically at startup.) If the symptoms get really bad,
take your monitor to a repair shop and get it degaussed with special
tools to remove built-up magnetic mojo.
An off-center or out-of-square image is the result of poor display
geometry. A blurry image (aka a focus problem) can be caused
by lousy convergence— ho\N well aimed a CRT's electron guns are
when they shoot their electron beams at the inside of your CRT’s
glass screen. To fix either problem, use your display’s geometry
and convergence (or focus) controls; to find these controls, RTFM
(nerdspeak for “read the. ..uh... friendly manual”). If your CRT
doesn’t have digital-convergence controls, look for an external
control somewhere on the case that you can adjust with a thin
flathead screwdriver. Never open a CRT's case and muck about
inside— even when unplugged, there are charges inside powerful
enough to kill you.
All fixed? Now don’t you feel just a wee bit more in control of
the universe? □
bdd Stauffer has been writirrg about using and fisting Macs
r nearly ten years-^and no/bewon*t repair your copier.
Removing the RR AM battery fer a wHiie can resuscitate your
Mac—sometimes-
Sometimes the PRAM battery itself can give you trouble—
they're liable to go bad after three or four years of operation.
Any authorized Mac dealer can sell you a replacement.
Symptoms of a bad PRAM battery include odd clock behavior
(your Mac suddenly thinks it’s still in the Nixon administration)
or trouble maintaining settings (your Mac can't keep track of
whether AppleTalk is turned on, for example). Replace the battery
just as you would the one in your smoke alarm— remove the
original and snap In the replacement.
April 2003 MacAddIct 29
O K, you just managed to squeeze
that gargantuan Jaguar
installation onto your hard
drive by deleting a few albums’
worth of MPBsand uninstalling a
couple of apps you use only a few
times a month. You’re done— for now.
Or at least until you want to rip that
new album you bought. Or until the
next time Apple releases one of its
IGB-plus OS updates.
Instead of juggling what little
space you have, it’s time to give your
Mac a little more breathing room.
Storage has become cheaper, faster,
and more capacious than ever, and
your options are vast. So no more
excuses— it’s time to add those
much-needed gigabytes.
by Jeffy Milstead
Internal
Storage
When you first got your Mac, you probably thought you would
never run out of room (10 gigs— cool!). But everyone eventually
does run out of space— the key is to upgrade before you find
yourself with only 100 free megs. Waiting until your drive is
nearly full is begging for trouble: Your system becomes sluggish,
and you’ll find yourself juggling files and apps just to squeeze a
small system update onto your drive.
There are many reasons to upgrade your Mac’s internal storage
besides giving yourself more breathing room forallyour junk— er,
uh, important files. For example, you can keep your Classic
system folder on a completely separate internal drive. If you’ve
ever done system maintenance, you know that reformatting or
repartitioning is a whole lot easier when you have a separate
emergency drive from which to boot. (To find out how to install a
second hard drive, see “Supercharge Your Mac,” pl9.)
WHAT DRIVES A
HARD DRIVE
While capacity is the major concern of most hard-drive seekers,
speed is also important— and not just because you can brag
to your friends that you have a faster drive than they do. Three
factors affect performance:
1. Areal density Areal density refers to the number of
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Observe proper grounding techniques, and jot down the
B current jumper settings for the drive tnside your Mac before
adding any new drives. Each ATA port can support a maximum of
two drives per cable, and you must set the configuration jumper
on each drive to either master or stave mode. If your sptffy new
drive isn't showing up on your desktop, youVe probably set the
master-stave jumpers incorrectly.
Note that beginning with the Mirrored Drive Door G4s, Appte
£» switched to a simpler system , configuring all drives to use
the cable-select jumper, which sets up the master-slave
relationship automatically.
bits of data that a platter can store per square inch. As drive
manufacturers learn to pack the same disk surface with tighter
magnetic transitions, areal density will increase. And if data is
more densely packed, it streams off the drive at a faster rate.
2. Seek time Seek time refers to how quickly the drive
can position the read-write head over a given location on the
disk surface.
3. Rotational speed Midrange consumer drives tend to run
at 5,400 rpm, with higher-performance drives spinning at 7,200,
10,500, and even 15,000 rpm. In contrast, the smaller, quieter,
and more power-conscious portable 2.5-inch drives found in
laptops tend to run at 4,200 rpm and below.
Like processors, hard drives contain some amount of on-board
cache, which is essentially RAM built into the drive to help it
transfer data quickly to your Mac.
BUY SMART,
NOT CHEAP
When you’re buying a drive, common sense tells you to buy
the highest capacity for the leastamount of money. Even
though speed is probably a secondary concern for most of
you, it’s something to consider. Sheer rpm translates to faster
performance— a 10,000-rpm SCSI drive turned in the speediest
numbers compared with the single 7,200-rpm drives we tested
(see “The Good, the Bad, and the SCSI,” p37). All else being
equal, a higher-capacity drive is faster due to its higher areal
density— the more bits per inch, the faster a hard drive’s
read-write head can suck ’em up. You pay for capacity, and
you get extra speed for free. So Mom was wrong— you can get
something for nothing. Sort of.
Digital-video pros are special cases. If you’re a DV user, then
ponying up for a pair of 2006B drives means you can capture
and edit an additional 30 hours of footage without worrying
about hitting your head against the top of the disk. A single DV
data stream is only 3.6 MBps and doesn’t put great demands on
performance— most drives are up to the task.
Serious musicians using apps like Pro Tools also have
beefy storage requirements— one track containing a minute of
CD-quallty audio (44KHz, 16 bit) takes up 5MB of disk space.
Most professional productions consist of 48 or more tracks—
and of course, most songs are longer than a minute (sometimes
much to our chagrin).
Power Macs offer the best options for upgrading storage,
since they come with extra internal power connections and
Big, little, and minuscule.
To hard drive geeks, that
means 3.5, 2.5, and 1.8 inch.
April 2003 MacAddIct 31
space to mount additional drives. Older Power Macs, such as the
Blue-and-White G3 and earlier G4s, have an ATA/66 port. Recent
Power Macs (everything from the Mirrored Drive Door models
onward) come with an ATA/100 port.
Since most drives these days run faster than ATA/66, you
waste performance potential when running a new drive in an
older machine. You can, however, add dual ATA/133 ports by
installing a PCI card such as Sonnet's Tempo Trio— but when we
tested the Trio, we saw little or no improvement over the built-in
ATA/100 ports of our Mirrored Drive Door G4. To be fair, though,
the Trio is really meant to upgrade older ATA/66-equipped PCI
Macs or to stuff multiple pairs of drives into older machines.
PowerBook users are stuck with 2.5-inch drives, which
topped out at 60GB at press time but are due to go up to
80GB right.. .about.. .now. You can— with effort— upgrade your
laptop's internal drive, but you might be better off buying a
less-expensive 3.5-inch external drive instead and spending
the time playing Tony Hawk or another game o’ choice.
Hard drives and CD-RWs aren't the only games in town. Other
types of storage may be just what you need. For example, while
CD burners have eroded the Zip's popularity, you can usually
count on a service bureau’s having a Zip drive kicking around.
The most recent incarnation of the Iomega Zip drive {S199,&9
for FireWire, www.iomega.com; see Hev/eivs, p58) holds 750MB
on each $13 disk.
Small is beautiful, and key-size Flash drives such as the
Sonnet Piccolo ($39.95 to $149.95 depending on capacity,
www.sonnettech.Gom) let you move anywhere from 32MB to
266MB of files between any two machines with USB.
At S69 a cartridge for 33GB of storage, the Exabyte VXA-t
FireWire tape back-up drive ($999, www.exabyte.com) doesn’t
compete with DVD-RW, but does answer the question ' What do I
do when I have more than 4.7GB of data to store?” Tape maintains
its popularity in networked offices that do heavy nightly backups,
or anywhere large data sets occur. And the DLT (digital linear tape)
format is often used to shuttle data to DVD-repli cation houses.
Woo-hoof 750MB of Zip-ity doo-disc.
External
Storage
Apple has made expanding your Mac a breeze by equipping all
recent models with FireWire, and has upped the performance
ante by adding FireWire 800 (aka 1EEE-I394b)— which
theoretically doubles FireWire performance from 400 to 800
Mbps— to its latest PowerBooks and Power Macs. If you have an
older, pre-FireWire Mac, don't worry— you can easily bring your
Mac up to snuff by installing a FireWire PCI card in a desktop Mac
(see “Supercharge Your Mac” pl9) ora PCMCIA FireWire card in
an older PowerBook. But FireWire's not your only option.
CONNECTION
CONUNDRUM
Strictly speaking, true FireWire hard drives don't exist— the ones
sold today consist of an ATA drive glued to an ATA-to- FireWire
interface or bridge, with a snazzy-looking case wrapped around
the whole shebang. Most FireWire 400 drives use Oxford
Semiconductor's 911 bridge, but vendors are busily readying
drives based on the Oxford 922 bridge chip, which is compatible
with the updated FireWire 800 spec.
So is FireWire 800 really all that and a bag of doughnuts?
Well, we got our hands on a WiebeTech preproduction FireWire
800 drive and PCI host adapter (that’s fancyspeak for port), and
saw plenty to get excited about. Although the difference was
negligible in many of our tests, the FireWire 800 drive handled
Final Cut Pro video rendering in about two-thirds the time that
the FireWire 400 drive required. Remember, these were tests of
beta systems— performance
might improve markedly
as vendors further tweak
their systems.
Many FireWire drives also
sport a USB port. USB 1.1
was designed for low-speed
devices such as mice and
keyboards, and its 12-Mbps
performance is so slow
that it's not really worth
mentioning for your storage
needs. A faster version, USB
2.0, tops out at a zippy 480
Mbps and can be had via a
PCI upgrade card, but we
only recommend it if you do
a lot of cross-pollinating with
USB 2.0-equipped PCs.
The fastest type of
external storage available is
Ultra SCSI. Currently, the last
bastion of SCSI users on the
Mac is the high-end video
producer. Uncompressed
Note the different FireWire port (nine
pins instead of six) on the back of
this WiebeTech drive — one of the first
FireWire 800 drives on the market.
32 MacAddlct April 2003
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BACK UP WITH RETROSPECT
Although Retrospect suffers from dialog-itis, it is the preeminent backup application for the Mac. For those who
are panic-stricken (and those who should be), here’s howto do your very first Retrospect backup to CD:
Ifyou’re
8 using
an external
CD-RW drive,
make sure it’s
connected
and on. Open
Retrospect
and click the
Backup button.
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it if you want to retrieve something from the backup CD. A dialog
will open with your backup set selected. Click OK.
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we’re Very Important People and in a hurry, we only wanted
to back up our
Documents
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button, which
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Documents
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pop-up menu.
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button.
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scanning the
files on your
hard drive, then asks for blank media. Insert a CD, then dick Proceed.
am If you ruH ioto errofs, press Command-L to bring up the
m8 Operations Log for more details. Remember that Retrospect
will generate errors ifyou’re trying to back up files that have
changed since you began the backup, such as preference files on
the startup drive you’re using. When in doubt, examine the log.
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launched at 12/30/2002 2:36 AM
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12/30/2002 3; 17: SB AM: Execution conipleted successfully.
Completed: 1890 files, 490.7 MB, with 0X cotnpression
Performance: 3S.3 MB/minutc (27.2 copy, 50.0 compare)
Duration; 00:30:38 (00:02:51 idle/loading/preparing)
Retrospect presents this warning at the end of the backup.
8 Because Retrospect uses its own format, which the Finder
doesn’t recognize, the Mac will try (incorrectly) to format your
freshly written backup. If you use CD-RW, clicking the wrong
button means you have to start all over.
A
Mac OS X may offer to prepare or Initialize your CD/OVO
backup set members, which can cause data loss. Please read
carefully to ensure the Integrity of your data:
If you are asked to prepare a Retrospect disc, dick Qect or Ignore.
If you are asked to initialize a Retrospect disc, ciidc Qect or Continue.
To avoid these offers when quitting Retrospect, go to
Special>J’references>Medla Handling from the Retrospect Directory and
turn on Qect Media.
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B although many smaller portable FIreWtre drives draw their
power through the FireWire cable— a trick very few USB 2.0
drives can accomplish. While this method is great for eliminating
cable clutter, beware of chair^ing multiple drives together, as the
additional power draw can overwhelm your Mao s power supply,
which may result in a potentially expensive repair job.
As for performance, there's no noticeable speed hit when you
daisy-chain FireWire drives. However, if you're setting up a duah
drive software FireWire RAID and you want to get the fastest speed
possible, plug each drive Into its own FireWire port on your Mac.
-«s You can hot- plug FireWire drives just as you can USB drives,
ilC That fs, you can attach and remove them without first shutting
down your Mac. But first remember to eject any FireWire volumes
before physically yanking out the FireWire cable— otherwise you
risk crashing your Mac and corrupting your data.
If you plan to move your FireWire drive between Windows
JZ XP and Mac OS X, format the drive into FAT32 partitions in
Windows XP and divide it Into 30GB chunks to keep finicky XP
happy— your Mac's smart enough to recognize the drive.
I video gobbles up a whopping 25 to 30 MBps, and editing HDTV
streams can demand throughput of 120 MBps or more. People
who deal in high-end video typically need a dedicated array of
Ultra SCSI disks.
SIZE VERSUS SPACE
When shopping for external storage, you have two choices: big
or small.
The smaller, more portable drives house 2.5-inch or smaller
drives, but their compact size means lower capacities. Smaller
also means pricier and slower: Because portable drives need to
be energy efficient, they have lower rotational speeds— typically
4,200 rpm— which make them run cooler. Increased areal
density and cache size can compensate for slower rotation
speeds, though. For example, Hitachi, which recently took over
IBM's storage division, is about to release the 4,200-rpm 80GB
Travelstar 80GN (price not yet set, www.hgst.com), which has
a beefy 8MB of internal cache and boasts a 350-Mbps transfer
rate— impressive compared with other 2.5-inch drives, which
typically fall in the range of 250 to 300 Mbps. And if you're
looking to go reeeeeeally small, the stylin' LaCie Data Bank
($299, www.lacie.com) houses the same 1.8-inch Toshiba
We tested this Western Digital drive in this FireWire 400
enclosure, on an ATA/66 bus, and in a FireWire 800 enclosure.
LaCie covers both ends of the size spectrum with its teensy
20GB Data Bank ($299, www.lacie.com) and tyrannosaurus-size
Big Disk, which couples two 250MB 3.5-inch drives for a total of
500MB of storage ($949, www.iacie.com).
drive that's in Apple's iPod and gives you 20GB in a magnesium
FireWire 400 and USB 2.0-equipped case.
External drives are easy to use and perform decently, but you
don’t get something for nothing. To see what effect a FireWire
bridge has on performance, we tested a 200GB 7,200-rpm
drive from Western Digital ($399.99, www.westerndigital.com)
on the Internal ATA/66 bus of our test Mac and in an external
FireWire 400 case, and discovered that the drive was 6 to 30
percent slower when in the case. But unless you’re a hard-core
uncompressed-video-editinggeekwho eats terabytes for
breakfast, FireWire will meet your every need.
Now how about when we stuck the same drive into a beta
FireWire 800 enclosure? Our tests showed that when rendering
video, FireWire 800 was 30 to nearly 40 percent faster than the
internal ATA/66 bus, but only 75 percent as fast when copying
large files and around 90 percent as fast when copying small
files. Gotta love that Internal ATA bus.
Optical
Storage
CD and DVD burners have taken over the role that floppies and
Zip drives used to play for casually stashing files— but they do
so much more. For example, your band might burn a bunch of
demo CDs you want to mail to radio stations. You might send a
DVD proof of your latest video to the client for approval. You also
might want to make backups of all the software you legally own
to use at your mountain cabin where there's no broadband (hey,
it could happen).
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S vendors say CD speeds won’t be pushing much beyond 52X,
In an effort to squeeze every las! bit of performance out of CD
drives, drive vendors must now spin the CD so fast that speeds at
the CD's edge reach 150 to 200 mph. If you insert an old, brittle CD
that has microscopic cracKs, spinning it at that speed can cause it
to fty apart, destroying the drive along virith it— although that might
befun to watch,
•«l For the bargain hunter with an older, non-FireWire machine,
an internal CD upgrade can be attractive, but also a mixed
bag—your Mac may not support the latest bargain CD-RW
mechanisms. Check the drive compatlbiiity database on
AcceterateYourMac {http://xlrByourmac.com), or you may be
stuck with a CD-burning speed demon that fails to boot your
Mac in an emergency,
"13 forget that recordable-CD media is sold In different
■mB speeds, and you should match its speed to your drivers for
best performance.
DVD OR CD?
The biggest consideration in buying an optical drive is whether
you want to make DVDs or whether you’ll be satisfied with CDs.
Right now, the fastest CD burner available is 52X/24X/52X (the
three speeds correlate to write/rewrite/ read). Sure, DVD-R drives
can burn CDs, but they tend to be slower on the CD -burning side,
so avoid them if you’re not planning on making DVDs.
Want proof? We compared a Plextor PlexWriter 48X/24X/48X
internal drive ($130, www.plextor.com) to the 8X/4X/24X
SuperDrive in our dual-gigahertz G4 and found that the Plextor
cut CD-R burning time in half. The Plextor also kicked the
SuperDrive’s SuperButt in CD-RW performance, burning a
rewritable disc about 3.5 times faster.
Meanwhile, ifyou wantto burn DVD-Rs, may you have a lot of
patience and time. The original Mirrored Drive Door dual-gig G4
with its Pioneer A04 SuperDrive boasts an unwhopping 2X DVD-R
burn speed, and it took us 54.5 minutes to burn and verify a DVD.
We haven’t yet got our hands on the latest Mirrored Drive Door
beasties, which come with a Pioneer A05 SuperDrive that writes
DVD-R discs at 4X speed, but we assume it’ll be about twice as
fast. Yep, that’s why we get paid the big bucks.
Optical drives come in internal and external models, but unless
you’ve done your homework and like to tinker, external is the way
to go. (Ifyou fall into the aforementioned tinkerer category, see
“Supercharge Your Mac,” pl9, to find out how to install an internal
Pioneer “SuperDrive.”)
DVD burners like the Formac Devideon ($399, www.formac.com;
see Reviews, p54) are picking up in popularity — but their
CD-burning speeds are still quite sad.
SHOP AROUND
THE CLOCK
There are more companies that make storage products than you
have fingers to count them on.
ATTO, www.attotech.com
Maker of high-performance single- and dual-channel UltraSCSI 320
64-blt PCI interface cards and OS X RAID software.
Formac, www.formac.com
Specializes in sleek-looking CD-RW and DVD drives for the Mac.
Its Devideon drive (see Reviews, p54) includes proprietary
DVD-authoring software.
Hitachi, www.hgst.com
Took over IBM’s hard-drive line. Manufacturer of high-performance
2.5- and 3.5-inch drives, including the Travelstar line.
Iomega, www.iomega.com
Inventor of Zip and Jaz. Also sells portable FireWire drives.
tpaCie, www.lacie.com
Makes sturdy FireWire hard drives and optical storage with cool
industriaf designs. Its Big Disk line combines two high-capacity
mechanisms into one volume in one cabinet (see Reviews, p58),
and its Data Bank contains an itty-bitty drive in a sleek
magnesium case.
Maxtor, www.maxtor.com
Supplier of low-cost, high-quality hard-drive mechanisms for the
desktop. Maker of OneTouch Personal Storage external FireWire
drives for easy backup (see Reviews, Feb/03, p44).
Medea, www.medea.com
Manufacturer of preconfigured RAID arrays.
Other World Computing, www.macsales.com
Specializes in Mac storage, Including bare internal mechanisms
for laptops and desktops as well as finished FireWire optical and
magnetic drives.
Pioneer, www.ploneerelectronics.com
Supplier of the DVD-R mechanisms in iMacs and Power Macs.
Plextor, www.plextor.com
Manufacturer of CD-RWs. First to debut the buffer-underrun feature.
Seagate Technology, www.seagate.com
A leader in high-performance UltraSCSI mechanisms.
SmartDisk, www.smartdisk.com
Producer of FireWire and USB drives, including FireWire 800 products.
Sonnet Technologies, www.sonnettech.com
Specializes in Mac upgrades. Including ATA/133 PCI cards. Also
offers the Tempo HD line of PCI card-based hard drives.
Sony, www.sony.com
First to Introduce a DVD burner compatible with competing DVD-RW
and DVD-hRW standards.
TDK, www.tdk.com
Creator of veloCD CD-R burner, and DVD and CD media.
Toshiba, www.tos hi ba.com
Maker of 2.5-inch upgrade hard-drive mechanisms for PowerBooks
and the 1.8 hard drives in the iPod and external drives from
SmartDisk and LaCie.
Western Digital, www.westerndigital.com
Major manufacturer of desktop-drive mechanisms.
WiebeTech, www.wiebetech.com
Specializes in portable FireWire storage enclosures, including ones
with FireWire BOO support.
April 2003 MacAddIct 35
RAID
RAID, an acronym for redundant array of inexpensive disks (though
some claim it stands for redundant array of independent drives— but
can’t we all just get along?), is a way of combining several drives.
Most home users don’t really have any reason to use a RAID (unless
it’s of the bug-killing variety), but for professionals who deal in high-
end video or audio, it can be a lifesaver.
MIRROR OR STRIPE?
There are several types of RAID arrays, the most common being
RAID levels 0 and 1. RAID 0 provides data striping, which splits
your files equally across all drives. Because your Mac accesses
the drives in tandem, a RAID 0 array can work blazinglyfast. In
RAID 1, or mirroring, each drive keeps a duplicate of each file. If
one drive fails, you can quickly switch to the other with minimal
downtime. However, a RAID 1 array can run significantly slower
than even a single drive.
So is RAID worth it? It depends. Check out “How Fast,” p37,
for the wild ’n’ wacky results of our RAID testing. But even after
wading through all the data, the question remains: Which type
of RAID array is right for you? That depends on who you
are. High-end DV people use striped RAID arrays for editing
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fraction of the space available that you do with striping, since your
setup is duplicating data across multiple drives.
One drawback of Apple s RAtD setup is that you cannot boot
Sml from a RAID volume. SoftRAiO to the rescue! Shipping In
April, SoftRAID 3 ($149, www.softraid.com) for OS X will offer a
host of features beyond what Apple gives you, including RAID 0
on the boot volume, I/O error reporting, and remote administration
from the command line.
uncompressed video streams, and professional sound designers
use a fast UltraSCSI RAID array for performing nondestructive
edits on their mixes of 128 audio tracks. An IT manager might
install a mirrored RAID 1 array on a company server to decrease
system downtime.
If you’ve got a spare $5,999 or more, consider one of the
new Apple Xserve RAIDs, which come in a 3U rack-optimized
enclosure. There are three models— the low end comes with four
drives for up to 720GB of storage. And fora mere $10,999, the
high end comes with 14 drives for up to 2.52TB. Each features
dual independent controllers for redundant storage and a dual
2Gb Fibre Channel interface that allows for up to 400 MBps
throughput. Of course, you also need an Apple Fibre Channel
PCI card to plug these babies in— but what’s another $499?
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Disk Utility and click the RAID tab.
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HOW FAST?
Theoretically, the answer to the question “How do RAID arrays
perform?” should be simple: Striped RAID 0 arrays should be faster
than single hard drives, and mirrored RAID 1 arrays should be
slower. Ah, if life were only that straightforward.
We compared the 80GB 7,200-rpm IBM hard drive that
came with ourdual-lGHz Mirrored Drive Door Power Mac with
an internal RAID 0 setup we created by coupling two 200GB
7,200-rpm Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 hard drives ($291 from
www.emicroworld.com) on an ATA/100 bus with OS X*s Disk Utility
software. Large files copied to the RAID 0 drives only 10 percent
faster than to the stock drive; small files, however, zipped along
over 30 percent faster. (Oddly enough, the performance gains were
almost identical when we moved the RAID 0 drives to the internal
ATA/66 bus.) However, when we clocked the RAID setup against the
stock drive using Pinnacle’s DIskPerformance utility— designed to
test drives for use with Pinnacle’s high-end CineWave video-editing
card— the RAID array trounced the stock drive with 75 percent
faster read throughput and 140 percent faster write throughput.
Ultimate Hardware Tcx5l Kit
Things changed when we moved the RAID outside the Mac.
When we connected two LaCie Big Disk drives— 500GB and 400GB
($949 and $849, respectively; www.lacie.com)— via FireWire
and merged them into a RAID using Disk Utility, their RAID 0
performance was 17 percent slower than the stock drive’s in
large-file transfers, but 30 percent faster in small-file transfers.
RAID 1 performance over FireWire was even more extreme:
large files, 120 percent slower; small files, 35 percent faster.
DIskPerformance gave more-rational results, with 12 percent faster
reads and 7 percent faster writes on RAID 0, and 5 percent slower
reads and 7 percent slower writes on RAID 1.
When we installed an UltraSCSI RAID 0 setup using a pair of
147GB 10,000-rpm Seagate Cheetah drives ($895, www
.seagate.com) and an Adaptec PowerDomain 29160 UltraSCSI
host adapter ($349, www.adaptec.com), the results were even
more dramatic: copying large files, 16 percent slower; copying
small files, 21 percent faster; DIskPerformance reads, 153 percent
faster; DIskPerformance writes, 170 percent faster.
The moral? RAIDs are moody III’ things. Your mileage
can— and will— vary. □
To determine the rela tive performance
of al wide variety #f storage systems, we
A) performed 275 individual tests on 26
different storage devices and configurations,
2) dreated a plethora of Excel spreadsheets
and charts using the data we obtained from
our testing, and iii) beat our collective heads
against the wall trying to make sense of all
the numbers.
DIskPerformance
Tests
Below are the results of 54 of the tests
we believe matter most. In the file-copying
tests, don’t try to compare apples (large
files) &nd oranges (small files), as the
tests were of very different sizes: a 4.2GB
folder for. the Former and a mere 228MB for
the latter. Instead, compare how well one
storage configuration did against another in
the sarhe type of test.
ance Rendering Video
in Final Cut Pro
Uncompressed
H DV Format
Overall, RAID arrays outperformed single
drives, internal configurations oufperformed
external FireWire configurations, FireWire
800 bested FireWire 400, , and UltraSCSI
beat the pants off everything else. The key
word here \s overall — subtle variations will
always occur when you put any hardware
through real-world tests.
Large Files
ipipf Small Files
Copying
Files
FireWire Drives
Western Digital RreWire 400
Western Digital FireWire 800
External FireWire RAID
LaCie Big Disk RAID 0
LaCie Big Disk RAID 1
Internal RAID 0
Dual 200MB Maxtor on ATA/66
Dual 200MB Maxtor on ATA/100
SCSI
Seagate UltraSCSI single drive
Dual Seagate UltraSCSI RAID 0
Reference
Apple's IBM 806B on ATA/100
0 25 SO 75
100 0 30
60
^ Q 60 120
180
240
Throughput in megabytes per second.
Time in seconds.
Time in seconds.
LONGER IS BETTER.
SHORTER IS BETTER.
SHORTER IS SETTER.
1 HOW WE TESTED: We performed all tests on a dual 1GHz Mirrored Drive Door Power Mac G4 with 256MB RAM and running Mac OS 10.2.3. DIskPerformance Include the Combined Write and
Combined Read tests in Pinnacle Systems’ DIskPerformance utility, part of the company’s Cin6Wave RT 3.0 for OS X Jaguar driver package. Final Cut Pro tests rendered three 10-seoond uncompressed
movie clips {iwo as piciure-in-plcture eJemeits over the third), once as a 35MB DV-format movie, and once as a 300MB uncompressed file. The file-copying tests copied files using the Finder— the
large-file lest used a 4,2GB DVD disk image; the small -file tests used a 228MB folder containing 26,643 files. _
Formerly the senior technical analyst at /Wocivor/c/.JeffyA/lilstead is still waiting for areal density to approach his own cognitive density. He is known to
M have asked Apple so many times why he couldn’t perform other tasks while formatting a floppy disk that the company finally just removed the floppy drive.
April 2003 MacAddIct 37
5THAN1ALPRANK-A-PAL00ZAI
Sure, you shouldn’t let Valentine’s Day pass you by
without telling your loved ones that you, well, love them.
But you can’t let April Fools’ Day go by without ticking
off the Mac iover or Windows user in your life.
A hhh, April Fools’ Day...here on
the top half of the planet, it’s that
magical time of year when the sun is
shining, the birds are singing, and a Mac
user’s fancy turns to thoughts of wreaking
utter havoc upon the systems of friends,
relatives, and coworkers.
Luckily, OS X provides all sorts of
opportunities for childish pranks that are
ultimately harmless— as long as you don’t
count the victims’ ensuing psychiatric
bills or that stack of lawsuits seeking
punitive damages for extreme mental
cruelty. Is your victim still running Classic
mode or OS 9? Then refer to our "Hall of
Shame,” p42. Rather pick on a Windows
user? No prob— we’ve got a couple of
pranks up that pitiable alley as well.
Remember, the following items are
provided strictly for educational and
entertainment purposes; MacAddict can*t
be held responsible for any damage,
embarrassment, or loss of life, limb, or
soul that misuse of this information may
incur. Got it? Now let’s get prankin’!
by Jack Miller
WiNTEL Hi MS
Remember, Windows users need a little fun, too.
So fun ’em up hard.
Right* Gilok Raucousness Ooooh, Wintels
come with a fwo-buffon mouse. Sheesh, if thaVs
the best thing your friends can brag about,
then they deserve a little motor-skill confusion.
Pull up the Control Pane! (Start > Settings >
Control Panel) and double-dick Mouse. In the
Buttons tab, check the box that says Switch
Primary And Secondary Buttons, Ta-daaa!
Left-click Is now right-click, right-click is left-
click, and you've condemned your friends to a
topsy-turvy hell of baffled frustration, tripping
f i n gers , an d abo ut a zil fi on u n i nte nti o nal
conlextua! menus. If they sprain a finger, run.
BKue* Screen Blues if the targeted PC is
still running Windows ME, 98^ 95, or (saints
preserve us!) 3.1, download BSOD Properties
(http : //toasty tech, com/fi fes/bsod . htm i) an d
change the ever- lurking Blue Screen of Death
to, say, a Magenta Screen of Death. If s a most
ON THE
DISC
U.S. April Fool.rsrc,
Mac Music Critic
(April Fool!), and
CronniX 2.0.2
disorienting change to the one screen viewed
most frequently by users of those OSs of yore.
There's a risk you1i miss your April Fools' Day
target altogether if that Wlntel goes a whole
day without crashing— but seriously, what are
the odds?
Pooper Scooper This one requires a sizable
chunk of uninterrupted covert access to your
Windoid buddy's workspace, but ft you can
pull St off, if s a royal hoot: Simply replace an
entire Wintel system with a big, steaming pile
pf dog crap. Find a hiding spot with a good
view, and wait for the sparks to fly. (This is an
extrernefy subtle gag, so don’t be surprised if
it takes your victi m two o r th ree days to n oti c e
anything's changed.)
Don't foe too cruel, though; fate has already
played the biggest joke of all. After all, your
buddy uses Windows, right?
38 MacAddict April 2003
Quick-and-dirty pranks that hit your victim like a semi doing 90. Well, maybe 30.
COMMAIUD-LiNE CRACKUP
We’re sure you know some Mac users who avoid launching the
Terminal out of general principle. They’re so gooily GUI that the
mere mention of OS X’s hidden command-line interface makes
them clap their hands over their ears and yell “La la la, I can’t
HEEEAAAAR YOOOUUUU!” Want to send them running from the
room, clawing at their eyes and speaking in tongues? (Hey, it’s
all in good fun.)
I The next time your victim
hits the water cooler, pop
open System Preferences,
hit the Accounts pane, click
the Login Options tab, and
set the target Mac to display
the Name And Password
log-in window (instead of
List Of Users).
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f I iogth qptinw~l
Olsf^ay Login Window as: 0 Name and passnord
Q Hide The Restart and Shut Down buttons
0 Show password hint after 3 attempts to enter a password
The Accounts pane helps you
prepare for Command-Line Terror.
2
Next, log out (Log Out from the Apple menu) and save all
open documents when prompted (unless you want a price
on your head).
3 When the Login window
appears, enter>consDle
as the name (no
password) and press Return.
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This is your Mac on Unix.
Any questions?
Voila— every DOS-phobe’s
nightmare: a Mac with
a white-text-on-black-
background command-line interface and nary a GUI in sight.
Once you’ve talked your victims back down from the ledge,
help restore GUI goodness by logging into that bone-chilling
command-line interface, then typing logout and pressing Return.
No harm, no foul.
NEEATiVE VIBES EXTREME C1R8E UP
You just know Apple’s designers spent hours picking
out every little shade of colorthey used in the Aqua
user interface. So what better way to mess with your
victims than by turning all those colors on their heads?
Trust us— the results aren’t pretty.
1
2
3
Take another trip to System Preferences and bring
up the Universal Access panel. Click the Seeing tab.
See that giant button that says Switch To White On
Black? Go ahead and click it. Now you should be
looking at a nicely inverted grayscale display.
Next, open the Displays pane and set the color
back to Millions. Ta-daaa! The display is once
again full color, but man, those colors are scary.
Pi ft 0 iJ ii u
min# lh« tornputf r, (♦>*.«
Your victims may well try switching resolutions and
color depths a gazillion times in the vain hope of restoring
the screen’s
color scheme
to something
less barfworthy;
when they’ve
had enough, let
them know that
Universal Access
is the key to
restoring beauty
to Macland. One word: Yeeuuuccchhh.
This one’s particularly effective when used on claustrophobic people and
people obsessed with maximizing their screen real estate. They return from a
bathroom break to find their displays zoomed in so much that only six words
fit on the screen at a time and the Apple menu icon is the size of a CD-ROM.
Laughs aplenty.
I Once again, call forth the
Universal Access pane (and
you thought you’d never use
Universal Access) and click the
Seeing tab.
2 This time, click Turn On Zoom
and then use the Zoom Options
button to set both Minimum
and Maximum Zoom to 20x.
Set Quick Zoom Range:
Zoom In using 'CX+ or out using XX-.
Maximum Zoom: J
Uagniftcitfonixh 2 4 fi f U> 14 IS !■ 20
MInfmumZoom:
Keyboard shortcut can be used any time while zoom is on.
Hold XX4 or XX- to zoom past near and far points.
C Show preview rectangie when zoomed out
^Smooth images iUseXX\ to toggle smoothing)
Set the minimum and maximum zoom to
prepare for a zoomed-in nightmare.
3
Quit System Preferences and zoom in by pressing Command-Option-plus
sign (+). Oooh, trippy.
While it’s certainly possible for your
victims to reverse the effects of this little
stunt by laboriously navigating through
the OS X interface and revisiting Universal
Access while looking at a postage-stamp-
size chunk of the screen at a time, if you
are feeling generous (or fear bodily harm),
feel free to pass on the magic Command-
Option-minus sign (-) key combo as an
easy way to zoom back out.
Yes, that’s a photo of a
Cinema Display— 1,600 by
1,024, my fanny.
April 2003 MacAddict 39
STH ANNUAL PRANK-A-PALOOZA!
Slow & Sulitle
With these elegant pranks, it may take a bit longer for your victim to figure out what’s up.
MUDDY WATIRS
Know a few aesthetic perfectionists who are fond of bragging
about the picture-perfect brightness and clarity of their new
Apple Cinema Display HD? Well, here’s an easy gag that’ll
have them scheduling an early eye exam, or at least using
a lot more Visine: Turn that $1,999 dream display (or any
monitor, really) brown and muddy by calibrating it like a color-
blind psychotic with a darkness complex. Windows users may
not even notice the difference, but any Mac users worth their
salt will wonder what’s up. (“Is it the light In here or what?”)
"YDU'VE GDT
EMDARRASSMENT!"
OS X’s Mail application sure is nifty, isn’t it? Especially since, with
just a few minutes’ access to the target Macs, you can configure it to
embarrass the living bejeezus out ofyourvictims—and it may take
some time before they even realize what’s going on.
WW
IMac
Show AH
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Dtsplayt Sound Network Startup Disk
Display Profile
Generic RGB Pro^le
IMac
sRCB Profile
I Open the
Displays system
preference pane
and click the Color
tab. Click Calibrate
to launch the
Display Calibrator
Assistant.
2 Check the
Expert Mode
box to turn on
extra options and
then click the right
arrow to begin. Set the target gamma to 2.60 by dragging the
slider all the way to the right. Set the target white point to
4500°K by dragging that slider all the way to the left— you may
have to uncheck the No White Point Correction (Native) box
first. Looks pretty gross, huh? Name this profile Apr/7 Fool and
click Create to save it.
Since your victim’s Mac has saved these changes in
the Display Profile itself, no amount of fiddling with, say,
the brightness controls will make the display look any
better. Selecting a properly calibrated Display Profile is
the only restorative.
I Open Mail’s
Preferences window
and bring up the
Rules panel. Click Add
Rule and enter Apr/7
Fool in the Description
field. When setting
conditions via the
pull-down menu,
choose to perform this
rule with Every Message.
Eg:
AccouflU FcmuACotor* Vttvvlng Slvwnms Ruits
Attlye Dcicrvtwt
M NiWi From A|>ple
^ Junk
( Add Rute )
3
f DupHt«t» 3
To add a rule, you click Add Rule.
Makes sense.
f Calibrate ^
Open the Displays pane to start
a-calibratin’.
2
For the action, choose Reply To Message. Click the Reply Message
Text button and enter an embarrassing message— stuff about
uncontrollable bodily functions Is always good for a larf ortwo.
That’s all there is to it. Now every time your saps get new mail. Mail
will automatically dispatch a reply consisting of your Message of Evir^
Since autoreplies don’t appear in the Activity Viewer while they’re
being sent or in the Sent mailbox after they go out, your victims
probably won’t even realize what’s happening.. .until they start getting
all those replies from friends, family, and colleagues wishing a speedy
recovery from that bout with Explosive Tropical Hyperflatulence.
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Select tht white point lettiiHI you want for your display.
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Text to Include before original message:
Hi... Sorry, I cant deal with that right now, because I'm trying to
contain a level 9 Jodt itch Infestation and \Vs really starting to
get out of hand, ill drop you a line later, okay?|
f Cancel j p-QK
Yeeuuuccchhh Part 2; Son of Yeeuuuccchhh.
Slgh...this is how rumors get started.
40 MacAddict April 2003
These take a bit more elbow grease to set up.. .and they just might earn you a savage beating.
ALL THUMBS
Everyone already knows the old classic: Set your victims* Mac
to use the Dvorak keyboard layout so typing anything produces
gibberish. Yawn. What we*ve done here is make things a little
more subtle— and a lot more evil.
We created our own custom keyboard layout just for April Fools*
Day, so it’s rather more insidious. For example, we switched
the 2 and 3 keys so incorrect numbers look like clumsy typos.
Meanwhile, the Q key doesn’t work at all (so Command-Q won’t
perform a quit), and it looks like a dead key hardware problem.
And we replaced the lowercase I (ell) with an uppercase 1 (eye),
which looks similar enough in default fonts like Helvetica that it
might escape detection for a little while.
This keyboard layout is on the Disc. Here’s howto activate it in
OS 10.2 or later:
I Drop the file U.S. April Fool.rsrc into your Library > Keyboard
Layouts folder. Log out and back in, or wait for your victim
to do so. You can do this way in advance of April 1 without
causing any ill effects.
2 When you want
to activate the
layout, open the
International system
preference. Click the
Input Menu tab, locate
U.S. April Fool in the
list of layouts, and
click its check box to
enable it. Uncheck all
other layouts. Close
the panel.
itplKys Sourtd Nttwork Startup Disk
tm«rnational
f Languig« f Dat« I Time I Numb«rs t (input Mnu |
Turn on th< keyboard layouts and Input methods to appear
in the Input Menu. The menu appears when more than one
Is enabled.
I -
Roman ;;
Roman
flSPTName
Q SZSpantsh
Q ^Spanish -ISO
Q SSSwedish
Q {^Swedish - Pro
Q RSwIss French
G GISwIss German
S! SU.S. April Fool
n i ar*hir
Roman
Roman
Roman
Roman
Roman
Select this foolproof keyboard for
fooling your favorite fool.
Now just sit back and listen to your pal’s Scooby-Doo-like
sounds of bafflement and confusion. Incidentally, if you
want to make your own keyboard layouts (evil or otherwise),
for our money ResEdit’s still the easiest— and cheapest— tool
around (download it from www.resexcellence.com; you
have to run it in Classic or in OS 9 proper). Use a copy of the
April Fool layout as a template, along with /\/facAddict*s
tutorial on disabling the Help key (from "Hack Your Mac 2000,’’
Apr/00, p27, orwww.macaddict.eom/magazine/2000_04
/hack/hack_help.html). This tutorial pretty much tells you
ResEdit reveals the sneaky bits of our new keyboard.
EVERY MAC'S A CRiriC
Know somebody at work who’s always bringing in Michael
Bolton CDs to play and/or rip in iTunes? Well, this may not be the
world’s most elegant hack, but thanks to the forgiving nature of
AppleScript, we concocted a way to make that person’s Mac give
lessons in taste.
I Grab the AppleScript file named Mac Music Critic (April Fool!)
from the Disc and put it somewhere inconspicuous on your
victim’s Mac. If you like, open it in Script Editor and customize
the alert message and button.
2 Open the CDs & DVDs system preference. For the option When
You Insert A Music CD, select Run Script, and then navigate to
the Mac Music Critic (April Fool!) file.
Down with Celine DionI
That’s all there Is to it. From now on, whenever your victim inserts
a music CD, includingthat Michael Bolton disc, the Mac should
chew on the disc for a few seconds, spit it back out, and instruct the
perpetrator to acquire some actual musical taste. Here’s hoping
it makes a difference.
Hopefully your
victim will take
this button -
click to heart.
O Ugggh, please, not THAT crap again.
Can't we listen to. say. some Skynyrd for
a change?
I Ffomlse ToiSifeSonrie Taste ^
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If your vjctim is still doing the old-school Mac thing,
not— there are plenty of pranks to go around. Here ;
three classic gags frorii the vault to plague those of
pals still riding the 9,
Loud and Proud Perfect for office settings. First pop an embarrassing music CD in your
victim’s drive! then open the QuickTime Settings control panel and dick Enable Audio CD
AutoPlay. Close the panel, crank the Mac’s volume to 11 , and shut down. The next time the
poor sap starts up, the whole office will get a blast of "it's Raining Men "
Launch Break Ahhh, the joys of manual memory management! What’s more fun than a
Power Mac with a full gigabyte of RAM that stilt won’t launch anything other than Stickies?
Do a Get info on the Stickjes application and set its Preferred Size to 950,000KB.
For added fun, toss a Stickies alias In the Startup Items folder. Have we mentioned that
you’re headed straight for the Big Hot Place when you meet your untimely demise?
iffenu- ltem-ectomy Lets face It, most applications have way too many menu Items.
Duplicate one of your victim's apps, stash the copy as a backup, and open the original
in ResEdIt Open the MENU resources and double-click the menu you want to, er, trim.
Toss a few menu items by clicking them and pressing Delete, Close the window, save your
changes, and ' | _ |
quit ResEdit,
knowledge
you’re fighting the |II333SBS
war against Menu
Bloat. (Want
fiery torment?
Combine this
gag: Make that
Quit command.
Now you see
It {Quit), now
you don't. We
love ResEdit.
HEARING
VOiCEG
This one’s a gem. What could be more fun
than a Mac that whispers eerie things at
seemingly random intervals? It requires
substantial setup, but the good news is
you can prime your victim’s Mac weeks
in advance.
I Run a copy of the freeware app CronniX
(on the Disc; or download from
www.koch-schmidt.de/cronnix) on the
soon-to-be-possessed Mac. This liT app
provides a GUI for the Unix tool Cron, which
allows you to schedule the execution of
scripts, programs, and apps.
2 Set a bunch of AppleScript voice
commands to run at specific times on
April 1 (enter 4 for Month, 1 for Mday).
When specifying hours, use military time.
Use the following command format for
your phrases:
Dsascript -e "set volume 5";
osascript -e 'say "I'm watching
you" using "Whisper"*
Feel free to substitute whatever eerie
phrase you want for “I’m watching you.”
You can sample different voices by going to
the Speech Preferences pane and clicking
the Default Voice tab.
When April Fools’ Day arrives, the
Mac will whisper each of your specified
phrases at the times you scheduled. No
apps launch, no visible changes appear
onscreen— all your victim will notice is that
spooky voice popping up now and again.
Simple. Elegant. Likely to induce deep-
seated paranoid psychosis. What more
could you possibly want?
Import Fauorites...
EKport Fauorites...
Page Setup..
Print Preuieiu
Print...
Entire Menu;
Title: #|F»e
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Menu Background; | |
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jack
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osascript -e "set volume 5"; osascript ~e 'say "They are all out to get you!" usin9 "Vlrtilsper"' [
B 47
9
1
4
»
osascript -e "set volume 5"; osascript -e 'say "Fool! You cannot silence me!" using *yvhlsper"‘
S 12
10
1
4
•
osascript -e "set volume 5"; osascript -e 'say "Get out get out get out get out" using "Whisper"*
S 34
10
1
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osascript -e "set volume 5*; osascript -e 'say "Listen to what the voices tell you* using "MWiisper”
0 52
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osascript -e "set volume 5"; osascript -e 'say "FEED ME A CAT* using "Whisper*" |
B 28
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1
4
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osascript -e "set volume 5"; osascript -e 'say "Everybody is laughing behind your back" using "Whisper" j
8 46
11
1
4
•
osascript -e "set volume 5"; osascript ~e 'say "Crab the knife, do It now" using '"Whisper"
0 22
15
1
4
»
osascript -e "set volume 5"; osascript -e 'say "Thought you had gotten rid of me?" using "Whlspei^
0 51
15
1
4
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osasaipt -e "set volume 5"; osascript -e 'say "Have you ever eaten raw meat?" using "Whisper** j
0 30
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1
4
•
osascript -e *sei volume 5"; osasaijM -e 'say "April Fools!" using "Hysterical"* i
1
Paranoiacs
rejoice;
they are out
to get you
if you use
CronniX.
As a stay-at-home dad, Jack Miller divides mo^t of his attention between his baby daughter Anya and his TiVo, but sometimes
he still manages to keep As the Apple Turns (www.appleturns.com) somewhat current. He has no discernible sense of humor.
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look at the Devideon DVD-R/CD-RW with its DVD-mastering software (who needs iDVD?).
Speaking of software, we made beautiful music with BIAS Peak and took the checkered
flag in FI Championship Season 2000. In the near future, we’ll get our mitts on more new
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46 12-Inch PowerBook G4 notebook
59 Artisan Color Reference System (GDIV1-C520K)
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58 Big Disk 500GB FireWire hard drive
52 C-730 Ultra Zoom 3.2-megapiKel digital camera
61 CopyPasle-X 1,5.1 cupboard enhancer
54 deskjet 450cbi portable inkjet printer
53 Devideon external DVD-R and CD-RW* drive
60 FI ChampionshipiSeason2000 racing game
60 Freedom Force 'role-playing game
61 HomePlug Ethernet IrHge network bridge
48 Keynote 'presentation software
49 Peak 3.2 audio-editing software
55 StoryBoard Quick 4 storyboardingsoftware
61 SuperScrubber disk-sanitizing utility
50 Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon strategy- based
first-person shooter
56 UZR 3D Professional 1.4 image-based
3D- modeling software
51 Virtual PC 6 with Windows XP Home Edition
PC-emulation software
58 Zip 750MB FireWire ExternalDrive
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128MB, which you can replace with a
512MB module to hit the PowerBook’s
640MB RAM ceiling.
Graphically speaking, the PowerBook’s
nVidia GeForceA 420 Go chip set provides
32MB of video RAM— enough to drive a
23~inch Apple Cinema Display— and the
combo video out supports S-Video, as well
as monitor-spanning across an external
VGA display (the iBook's VGA out can only
mirror the onboard display, not increase
its usable size). The PowerBook's 133MHz
system bus and Ultra ATA/100 hard drive
further sweeten the deal; all that sets this
model apart from the 17-inch PowerBook
is the absence of FireWire 800, Gigabit
Ethernet, and a preinstalled AirPort
Extreme card; less video power; lower
total RAM capacity— and the 12-incher's
Achilles' heel; no level 3 cache.
How important is L3 cache? it's
hugely significant in some tasks but
inconsequential in others. In our tests,
the 867MHz 12-inch PowerBook performed
up to 20 percent slower than a stock
800MHz TiBook in some Photoshop
actions and up to 20 percent faster in
others (with 256MB of RAM in each 'Book).
For reference, a 600MHz G3 iBook with
640MB of RAM held Its own in most tests
(including Gaussian Blur, Rotate Canvas,
and Unsharp Mask) but got thoroughly
trounced by the G4s' AltiVec Velocity
Engine in tests such as RGB-to-CMYK
conversion. The moral: Buy more RAM.
The battery survived a 2-hour DVD
screening of Su///ff with enough juice
left over to play the big chase scene again
(just to see Steve McQueen make the
bad guys' car crash into a gas station
sitting on the very lot that now houses
our own /WacAc/cf/cf Global Headquarters).
A ll of a sudden, the 12-inch iBook
we've used so happily seems almost
inelegant. Apple's new 12-inch PowerBook
uses the same 12.1-inch TFT XGA display,
but packs it into an ever-so-slightly smaller
carriage (10.9 by 8.6 by 1.18 inches versus
the iBook's 11.2 by 9.06 by 1.35), which, at
4.6 pounds, is also a few grams lighter.
What could make the lovable iBook look
ugly? Well, maybe not ugly, but picture
a slightly downsized iBook in gorgeous
anodized aluminum, which Apple claims
is much harder to scratch than the TiBook.
Opening the PowerBook's lid reveals
this model's best-of-both-worlds case
design. The PowerBook's hinge is modeled
after the IBook's, but opens a good 15
If your main concerns are
small and smaller, this
thing is perfect.
percent wider, providing more options for
comfortable viewing.
The keyboard is perfect It looks as
if it was carved out of a block of solid
aluminum, and typing on it is a joy— it feels
solid, with snappy, responsive keys. Why is
this keyboard so much more fortitudinous
than recent Apple laptop keyboards?
Simple. This one is built right into the
chassis, whereas recent versions used a
flexible, user-removable keyboard prone
to sagging during use. We only wish this
'Book's keyboard had
the fiber-optic running
lights that grace the new
17-inch PowerBook.
Portwise, the 12-inch
PowerBook matches the
current iBook setup:
56-Kbps modem,
Ethernet, FireWire 400,
two USB 1.1, Apple’s
combo (5-Video and VGA) video out, and
1/8-inch stereo line out; the PowerBook
adds a 1/8-inch stereo line in for good
measure (there's also a built-in stereo
mic). Under the hood, the PowerBook has
onboard Bluetooth for communicating
with cell phones and such, and it's ready
for Apple's next-generation wireless
networking via an easy-access AirPort
Extreme slot on its bottom and dual
antennae integrated into its lid (AirPort
Extreme card sold separately; $99 at
www.apple.com).
Functionally, the wee PowerBook
has a few advantages over the iBook-
first and foremost, the mighty G4
processor with supercomputing AltiVec
technology. Feeding the processor
is Apple's next-generation system
architecture with DDR SDRAM (that's
double data rate— PC2100 at 333MHz).
But as In the iBook, you get 128MB built
onto the motherboard, and Apple fills the
lone memory expansion slot with another
The 12-inch PowerBook’s
hinge (modeled after the white
iBook’s) lets you open it wider
than an iBook, but not as wide
as a 15-inch TiBook.
12- Inch PowerBook
G4 (867MHz)
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That car chase sounded great too,
thanks to the secret third speaker,
which hides behind the keyboard and
adds enough midrange to make this
the best-sounding portable weVe ever
heard. (You won't even find this third
speaker in the 17-inch PowerBook— it's
unique to the little guy.)
Like any laptop, though, the
PowerBook got plenty hot while playing
that DVD, but we found it bearable on
the lap through jeans. Then we plugged
in the AC adapter, which changes Energy
Saver's Processor Performance settings
from Reduced to Highest; after a few
minutes at this setting, the 'Book was
uncomfortably hot to the touch.
In our don't-try-this-at-home test,
an unexpected act of dog sent the
PowerBook on a quick, 2.5-foot trip
to the thinly carpeted wood floor; the
movie played on, and the 'Book suffered
no noticeable cosmetic or structural
effects (pit bull Peewee's OK too).
To nitpick, the lid-release latch
button Is recessed in such a way that
it requires a fairly surgical strike with
the fingernail— this is one place where
bigger would be better so we wouldn't
have to angle our finger/usf r/^hfto
release the latch. And an FYI on the
trackpad: Ours arrived with its click
button, for lack of a better term, jacked
up— raised a millimeter or two higher
than it should be. Clicking the button
worked fine but didn't feel right, and
we couldn't always tell if the clicks
had registered. A quick trip to our local
Apple Store confirmed that our jacked-
up trackpad button is an abnormality,
and Apple assured us that its standard
warranty covers such defects.
One thing we really dig about this
'Book won't appeal to everyone: This
machine will not boot in OS 9. But
don't worry, Quarksters— the Classic
environment still works. Coincidentally,
our external FireWire drive, which
happily boots OS 10.2.3 on other Macs,
wouldn't boot this PowerBook until
we upgraded the FireWire drive to
the version of 10.2.3 that came with
the 'Book.
So is the 12-inch PowerBook G4
the best of both worlds? If your main
concerns are small and smaller (and
impeccable style, natch), this thing is
perfect. If you need more performance
on the road, hold out for a machine with
a level 3 cache, a higher RAM ceiling,
and other trimmings of the bigger
'Books.— /V//CO Coucouvanis
It doesn't light up like the 17-incher’s, but the new PowerBook keyboard is
otherwise perfect.
COMPAHY: Apple
CONTACT! 800-795-1000 or
408-996-1010, www.applexom
PRICE: $1,999 ($1,799 with Combo drive)
SPECIFICATIONS: 867MHz G4 with 256K L2 cache. 256MB
PC2100 DDR SDRAM (640MB max), 40GB Ultra ATA/100 hard
disk, nVidia GeForce4 420 Go 4X AGP graphics with 32MB DDR
SDRAM, S-Video and VGA out, 10/100Base-T Ethernet, 56-Kbps
modem, Bluetooth. 1X8X DVD-R/8X4X24X CD-RW SuperDrive
GOOD NEWS: Stunning beauty. Great sound. Scratch resistant.
Smallest PowerBook ever.
BAD NEWS: Only 256MB of RAM. No level 3 cache.
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Keynote charts are pretty, but they’re
unwieldy if you’re handling too much data,
our slides. The QuickTime movie controller
in the Inspector is handy, but we wish
we could add background music to the
entire presentation.
When It comes to showing off your
presentation, you’ve got a few choices.
You can view it on your Mac in full-screen
mode with options for projector and
second-monitorviewing. This worked fine
for us, but some reports on Apple’s support
page indicate that chart-heavy slides are
slow when you use the Scale Slides Up
To Fit Monitor setting (In Preferences).
Similarly, as of press time, we saw reports
of ATI driver conflicts on iBooks. You can
also export your slide show to a QuickTime
movie or a PowerPoint presentation,
although in PowerPoint we had to reattach
our music files to the slides.
We never had so much fun making a
presentation. Yes, Keynote can run slow,
it’s hard to distinguish click-selecting
from clicking inside text boxes and table
cells, and Apple needs to work out some
bugs. But after living with PowerPoint's
myriad crashes and idiosyncrasies, we love
Keynote.— Marasu Rebbapragada
Keynote
PRESENTATION SOFTWARE
2 Make your own Theme by
tweaking a slide to your liking
and then selecting Save Theme
from the File menu. Your new theme will
appear in the Theme gallery the next
time you create a new presentation.
We liked our title page so much that we
made a Theme out of ft.
For consistent table or chart formatting,
design a table or chart, then choose Define Defaults For Master Slides from the Format
menu. The next time you create a table or chart, you’ll get that formatting.
Customizing Keynote
The best part of Keynote is that you can make your own Master Slides, background
Themes, and even chart and table formats. Here’s how:
^ Make your own Master Slide by
I choosing New Master Slide from
I the Slide menu; Keynote will
add your new design to the Master
Slide Organizer.
N ow we know why Steve Jobs likes
keynote addresses so much.
Keynote, originally designed for Jobs’s
own presentations, cured our aversion to
PowerPoint-style presentations with its
ease of use, high-quality backgrounds,
graphics, transitions, and charting
capabilities. Although it has some interface
quirks and speed issues. Keynote offers a
breadth of formatting and customizing tools
that helped us point and click our way to
presentations that didn’t look canned.
Keynote’s superpower is its Inspector—
the main formatting palette— where you
Keynote cured our
aversion to PowerPoint-
style presentations.
can do amazing things to graphics and
objects. With alpha-channel support (for
background transparency), opacity, and
even rotating drop shadows, we gave our
dingbats some whiz-bang. Then we got
jiggy with Keynote’s generous supply of 2D
and OpenGL-rendered 3D slide transitions.
Charts and tables no longer have to
be boring. We added custom colors and
Never mind
PowerPoint— Keynote
makes a stylish slide-
show presentation.
graphics (Keynote comes with a small but
good-quality set of sample photographs
and clip art). We even added a nice
gradient to the back of our chart. While
you do get a wide array of chart types
(Column, Bar, Line, Area, and Pie, among
others), Keynote’s charting Is not equipped
to handle large amounts of data, and you
can’t import spreadsheet information. One
complaint we have is that clicking table
cells and text boxes to select them versus
clicking inside them to add text is a pain in
the butt and often took multiple tries. Our
favorite feature of Keynote was its ability to
customize Master Slides and Themes (see
“Customizing Keynote,” below).
We imported QuickTime movies and
music (MP3 and AIFF files) to spice up
COMPANY: Apple
CONTACTS 800-795-1000 or
408-996-1010, www.apple.com
PRICE; $99
REQUIREMENTS; G3, Mac OS
10.2 orlater, 128MB RAM (512MB
recommended), 8MB VRAM (32MB
recommended), 1GB disk space
GOOD NEWS: Alternative to PowerPoint. Sweet graphics.
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Peak 3.2
AUDIO-EDITING SOFTWARE
M usicians have been jonesing for a
dedicated, OS X-friendly audio-
editing application— a versatile one that
can create audio for Internet streaming
and multimedia, master and burn audio
CDs, and sync to picture for video and film
sound design. Luckily for us, BIAS Peak 3.2
Is here.
Besides moving to OS X, Peak 3.2
improves some basic features, such as
sample-rate conversion and dithering
algorithms for when you need to take
your mix from 24 to 16 bits, and adds
some new tools like a magnifying glass, a
hand tool for moving things around, and a
better pencil tool for drawing in your own
waveform corrections. Version 3.2 also
brings better MP3 encoding, and supports
QuickTime 6 and Dolby’s AAC encoding
format. AAC is the new high-zoot standard
for high-quality audio delivery; it provides
more efficient compression than crusty
Peak is the
audio-production
jack of all trades.
20th-century formats such as MP3, but It
can deliver audio quality rivaling that of
uncompressed CD audio.
One of our favorite parts of Peak is the
integrated Vbox SE, a VST plug-in matrix
that allows you to combine VST plug-
ins in a theoretical 99 by 99 (that’s 99
plug-ins that you can use on 99 channels)
matrix. You can hook up effects in series,
parallel, or mixed configurations for all
sorts of audio processes. With proper
understanding of EQ and compression,
you can set up multiband mastering chains
and some pretty sophisticated noise-
reduction processes. The I/O meter and
the level controls keep audio levels out of
the red, so your only real limits are taste
Since Carbonized
commercial VST plug-ins
are kind of thin on the
ground (although Wave
Arts’ entire line is here).
and CPU power.
ON THE
pisc
Trials of Peak (OS 9)
3.2, Peak (OSX) 3.2,
and PeakG4 (OSX)
BIAS can’t
offer the usual
Finally, bIg-tIme waveform editing comes to OS X— ain’t it beautiful?
BIAS Freq and
Freeverb-c in
addition to the
MDA set of OS
X VST plug-ins, which you can find free on
the Web anyway. Usually free EQ plug-ins
don’t get much mention unless they have
Focusrite or some other high-end surname,
but the BIAS Freq plug-in is a great little EQ
plug— very musical and easy to understand.
Operating in OS X, Peak 3.2 worked
flawlessly on our450MHz and 733MHz G4s,
but had trouble keeping things together on
a 600MHz iBook. We got so many “Peak
has unexpectedly quit” messages that
they became quite expected. BIAS’S tech
support couldn’t find a rational reason for
the glitches and blamed the Roland UA-30
USB interface we used, but we experienced
the same difficulty when using the built-in
Core Audio sound driver. We didn’t have the
same problem In OS 9,
but who wants to use
OS 9 anymore?
Peak’s DSP (digital
signal processing) menu
is a treasure chest of
28 incredibly useful,
practical, and downright
freaky DSP algorithms.
Boilerplate functions
like Change Gain, DC
Offset Correction,
Click Removal, Fade,
Crossfade Normalize,
and Sample Rate
Conversion will get
you out of more
production jams than
a sleazy Hollywood
attorney. Pitch Shift, Time Stretch, Rappify,
Phase Vocoder, and Reverse Boomerang
will almost always turn out interesting
freakiness when it’s 3 a.m., you’re past
deadline, and all other options have
failed you.
Peak is the audio-production jack of all
trades. It includes virtually every audio
tool and function you might need. Editing,
looping, streaming-media creation,
QuickTime video support, and CD burning
are but a few of its many offerings. Given
the dearth of Mac (let alone OS X) apps
for editing stereo audio, BIAS could have
delivered a real turd and people still would
have bought It. Lucky for us, the company
tossed us a gem —Kent Carmical
This little widget, Vbox, lets you add countless effects to the
mix— please use it responsibly.
e Q Q vhutdfOB* llSbpin
generous
amounts of
plug-ins it has
kicked down
with Peak in
the past. As a
matter of fact,
you only get
COMPANY: BIAS
CONTACT: 800-775-2427 or
707-782-1866, www.bias-inc.com
PRICE: $499, upgrades from $99
REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC, Mac OS 8.6 to
9.x or 10.1 (10.2.3 recommended). 64MB RAM
GOOD NEWS: OS X support. Vbox rocks.
More features than we probably deserve.
BAD NEWS: A bittwitchy on slower G3s.
Carbonized plug-ins are still scarce.
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Tom Clancy’s
Ghost Recon
STRATEGY- BASED FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER
G host Recon puts you in charge of an
elite, highly armed special-forces
team called the Ghosts, whose job is to,
er...“stabilize” some of the world’s most
troubled hot spots (translation: you shoot
a lot of bad people and blow up their
toys). The game’s 23 missions take you
from the Ethiopian desert to the Balkan
forests to Moscow’s Red Square, and
they’ll keep you busy for days straight;
it all plays out in a snazzy 3D world via a
first-person perspective.
Before each mission, you’ll handpick
your Ghost team from a pool of soldiers in
Action is sweeter when
you have to strategize.
four different classes: Riflemen, Support,
Demolitions, and Snipers. A point system
tells you how effective each soldier will be
in the field, measuring weapon handling,
endurance, stealth, and leadership skills
(a good leader boosts the skills of all his
teammates). When a mission’s over, you’ll
award the lucky survivors with more skill
points so they’re better at their jobs the
next time around. This also makes you
cherish veteran soldiers over the course of
a campaign, and when one goes down, it’s
like you’ve lost an old friend.
Executing a successful mission is all
Stealth is the name
of the game as you
and your team plant
demolition charges
on this heavily
guarded bridge.
about teamwork (remember, there’s no
letter "i” in the word “team”). A Ghost
team typically consists of six soldiers
divided into Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie
fireteams. You can control any soldier in a
first-person view, and the other members
of that soldier’s fi reteam will follow along
and fire at available targets (often ones
you’ve overlooked). At the same time, you
can order your other fireteams to sit tight
or move along paths you quickly set on a
map. You also decide how each fireteam
responds to enemy contact— that is, let the
lead fly, or act stealthy and avoid detection.
This level of control (which usually
involves no more than a few mouse or
keyboard clicks) lets you use your teams
strategically, and that’s the name of the
game. For instance, you might order one
fireteam to engage an enemy position,
while you use a second team to surprise
the poor bastards from another direction.
Or you might quietly position your fireteams
around an enemy camp, right under their
noses, and then give the
“fire at will” command when
everything’s just right (truly a
beautiful site to behold).
Since a single enemy
shot will usually kill a team
member (and a grenade can
flatline a handful), you want
Pick team members with the
right skills for each unique
mission: With a Stealth
rating of only 2, this rifieman
wouidn’t be your best bet for
a delicate recon job.
to deploy your fireteams carefully, probing
unexplored territory and committing to
battle only when you’ve got a plan. Of
course, this game’s pace is much slower
than that of Quake -style shooters, but
It creates a dramatic tension that puts
traditional shooters to shame.
Ghost’s authentic combat model goes
hand in hand with surprisingly good enemy
Al (despite occasional hiccups)— when the
You can call
up this map
at any time to
set and tweak
movement
paths for
each of your
fireteams.
shooting starts, enemy troops sprint for
cover, use the terrain to their advantage,
and often have the good sense to lay in
wait. Battlefields also come to life, thanks
to the many detailed touches (fog and rain
effects, flocks of birds in the distance,
gently swaying trees, the sound of pebbles
kicked up underfoot), and the game’s
smooth 3D character animation Is first-
rate, right down to soldiers shooing flies
away and wounded enemies dragging
themselves to cover.
All this makes Ghost Recon the closest
we’ll ever get to the special forces
(probably a good thing as far as national
security is concerned). The game doesn’t
dish out the manic fragfests of Quake, but
sometimes the action is sweeter when you
have to strategize and make every bullet
count— Helmut Kobler
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COMPANY: Aspyr Media
CONTACT: 888-212-7797,
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PRICE: $49.95
REQUIREMENTS: 450MHz G3, Mac OS
9.2 or 10.1 or later, 128MB RAM (256MB in OS
X), ATI Rape 128 or nVidia GeForce video card
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GOOD NEWS: Good blend of action and strategy.
Realistic combat model. Excellent multiplayer mode.
BAD NEWS: Interface for controlling Ai fireteams can get
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COMPANY: Connectlx
CONTACT: 800-950-5880 or 650-571-5100.
www.connectix.com
PRICE: $249, $99 upgrade from version 5
REQUIREMENTS: G3 or G4 (no upgrades;
SQOMHzlor OSX), Mac OS 9.2.2 or 10.1.5 or 10.2
or later (10.2.3 strongly recommended), 196MB
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GOOD NEWS: Supports 16MB video.
Well integrated with OS X.
BAD NEWS: Hardware emulation is
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F inding uses for Virtual PC is getting
tougher all the time, what with OS X’s
bountiful software, ever-growing hardware
support, and genius-level networking
savvy, but some PC-only software is still
out there, and lots of in-house proprietary
systems (company intranets and such)
refuse to acknowledge Macs running any
OS— unless it's a Windows OS. And don’t
forget the so-called standards-based
World Wide Web, whose sites often appear
radically different on Windows than they do
on Macs. Virtual PC comes to the rescue.
OS X users upgrading from Virtual PC 5
will find version 6 faster (Connectix claims
up to 25 percent faster), but if you’re a
switcher or other Virtual PC virgin, don’t
get your hopes up. Even our mighty
It’s about compatibility,
not speed.
dual-processor 1.25GHz G4 Power Mac
only translates to an x86 processor running
at a whopping 666MHz (see “Why’s It So
Slow?” right). If you just switched from
a modern PC, well, we hope you brought
plenty of that patience we hear Windows
users need.
Mac purists might want to turn the page
now. We feel dirty enough just knowing
Windows is installed on the Mac, but
Virtual PC 6 introduces a new widget that’s
supposed to make the cohabitation even
Make sure you visit the Settings window
and up the VRAM— it still defaults to 4MB.
Famous switcher Ellen Feiss looks even more herbally enhanced on
Windows. Note the Start menu in the Dock— now that’s integration.
more copacetic:
The program
installs a Start
Menu in OS X’s
Dock. Blasphemy!
It’s actually a
stand-alone app
that can save you
at least half a step
in accessingyour
Virtual Machine,
especially if
you’ve shutdown
Virtual PC— the
Start Menu
app remains
docked. Another
Dock invasion comes in the form of app
icons— launch a Windows app, and its icon
appears in the Dock until you quit the app.
If this is too creepy, you can turn off either
or both of Virtual PC’s Dock integration
features via the Settings window.
Virtual PC has other handy forms of
integration with OS X. For instance, you
can mount Windows disk images on the
OS X desktop, with access to the files
you’ve created on the PC— anywhere on
the PC, not just in the designated Shared
folder as in Virtual PC 5 and earlier. And
if you can’t find the files on the emulated
PC disk, you can search the Windows
drives with Sherlock, which Is pretty cool.
Unfortunately, none of these new features
works in OS 9, but some of the other
improvements do, including increased
video support (finally. Virtual PC can
emulate up to 16MB of VRAM— enough
to drive an Apple Cinema Display),
drag-and-drop installation, improved
USB printer support, and security features
for controlling access to the Virtual
Machine settings and the Mac OS Finder
from within Virtual PC.
One new feature is counterproductive
to those using Virtual PC in both OS 9.x
and OS 10.x on a single Mac: the Virtual
Machines are now self-contained (in OS
X), so you can transplant an entire Virtual
Machine to another Mac and retain all of
the PC’s settings. The downside is that
while you can use the same Virtual Machine
in OS 9, you have to reapply any changes
to settings. We prefer convenience in OS
X over OS 9 and OS X interoperatibillty, so
we’re fine with this arrangement.
Virtual PC is a fantastic application,
especially if your other option is getting a
Dell (dude) or some other Wintel PC. Just
remember that it’s about compatibility, not
speed,— /V/Zco Coucouvanis
Why’s It So Slow?
As fate would have it, emulating a
processor is, in Connectix’s words, “a
very nonparallelizable problem.” And
dual-processor computing Is a parallel
solution— that’s why our dual-processor
Power Mac doesn't look like much to
Windows* System Information utility.
Take some consolation in the fact that
Virtual PC uses that second processor
for video and I/O operations (disk
access, networking, and so forth),
which at least lightens the burden on
the processor doing the dirty work.
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C-730 Ultra Zoom
3.2-MEGAPlXEL DIGITAL CAMERA
With its lOx optical zoom lens, Olympus’s C-730 can get you
right into the action.
Y ou can get really up close and personal
with the 3.2-megapixel Olympus
C-730 Ultra Zoom. This digicam thrives
on shooting sports and wildlife, and can
also produce portraits with beautifully
soft backgrounds. With a fast f-2.8 lens,
a lOx 38mm to 380mm (35mm-camera
equivalent) zoom, a top shutter speed of
l/l,000th of a second, and a 1.2-inch
macro mode, this Is one versatile camera.
Beware, though— to get that long reach
from the C-730 (or any camera), just raising
it to your eye and shooting won’t cut it.
When photographing at the maximum
telephoto setting in anything but the
brightest light, you usually need a tripod
The C-730 captured images
with minimai artifacts and
excelient picture quaiity.
or monopod to steady the camera, because
the slightest shakiness will be magnified
big time.
Of course, when you pull back to a
normal or wide-angle view, you can
hand-hold the C-730. Setting the camera
to Auto or Program will usually yield
perfect results. You can also select a scene
mode— Portrait, Action, Landscape, or one
of three others, depending on your subject
matter. For full control there’s Aperture
and Shutter Priority, Manual Exposure,
and Manual Focus. We selected Aperture
Priority, set the lens opening to f-2.8, and
zoomed in about halfway
to shoot some beautiful
portraits with out-of-
focus backgrounds.
The C-730 uses an
electronic viewfinder
(EVF) instead of an
optical one; under dim
light it has a grainy, low-
resolution, camcorder
feeling. But we prefer
a grainy EVF to the
extra price that would
accompany a glass
optical viewfinder fitted
for a lOx zoom. Another
consolation Is the camera’s traditional
1.5-inch LCD monitor, which gives much
better definition than the EVF.
To its credit, the EVF offers a heads-up,
jet-fighter-like display of all the camera’s
functions (it mirrors the LCD monitor),
and since it has a good range of diopter
adjustment, most four-eyed photographers
will love it— you can set menus, see your
exposure settings, check a histogram (a
graphic display of exposure values), keep
track of battery life, and more, all without
using eyeglasses.
Like most Olympus cameras, the C-730
has a plethora of bells and whistles, some
of which you’ll probably never use— like
the silly self-portrait mode where you
hold the camera at arm’s length pointed
at yourself and say cheese (or cheesy).
Other features, though, are more useful,
including an external socket for off-camera
flash, (there’s a powerful built-in flash too),
movies with sound, NTSC and PAL video
out, exposure autobracketing, a choice
of burst modes, ISO settings up to 400
for low-light situations, and an optional
adapter for add-on lenses and filters.
You can even kick in a 3x digital zoom
on top of the lOx optical one, which gives
you the 35mm equivalent of 1,140mm,
powerful enough to shoot big game from
afar. Remember, though, that digital zoom
just chops a piece of the image from the
center and Interpolates it to a higher
resolution, so be prepared to lose some
sharpness. You can do the same thing with
more precision in Photoshop and other
image-editing software.
The C-730 captured our images with
minimal artifacts and excellent picture
quality, producing delicious, full-size
prints. Battery life was above average
considering the EVF is on whenever the
camera isn’t sleeping; we got over 3 hours
out of a set of rechargeable NIMH batteries
before they rolled over and played dead.
If you’re looking for a digicam to shoot
sports, wildlife, or portraits, the C-730
will deliver the kinds of pictures you
thought required expensive professional
equipment, just take some care to steady
your shots, and this camera will come
through with aplomb —Arthur Bleich
Set to Its widest field of
view, here’s what the C-730
Ultra Zoom saw.
Maximum optical zoom
brings objects In lOx closer
and sharp as a tack.
Digital zoom extends the
range to 30x but will cost
you some sharpness.
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COMPANY: Olympus
CONTACT: 800-347-4027.
www.olympus.com
PRICE;$599
REQUIREMENTS;
USB-equippedMac,
Mac OS 6.6 to 9.x or
10.1. or later
GOOD NEWS: Takes both SmartMedia and the new x-D memory cards. Long, well-
balanced telephoto reach. Fine image quaiity. Takes add-on lenses (with optional adapter).
BAD NEWS: Electronic viewfinder (EVF) lacks high definition. Can1 turn off information
overlay on EVF and LCD monitor.
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Devideon
EXTERNAL DVD-R/CD-RW DRIVE
Finally, an external DVO burner with authoring software — never mind
the well-worn>bar-of-soap look.
W e give Formac a high five for
addressing the lack of an
inexpensive, stand-alone DVD-authoring
application for folks wanting an external
DVD burner. Because Apple originally didn’t
make iDVD a purchasable product, Formac
created its own software that works only
with the Devideon drive: A noble effort,
especially if you read the fine print. Sure,
you can now buy iDVD 3 in Apple’s iLife
bundle, but no, you still can’t use it on
nonApple-installed drives. At $400,
the whole Devideon package costs the
same as what other companies charge for
similar drives with no software.
Let’s start with the design. Its hull Is
one you may have seen before— the very
It’s a solid hardware-
software package.
same design as that of the company’s
CD-RW drive and discontinued DVD-RAM
drive. This time, it's iBook white with a
chrome logo, instead of the BMW gray of
the past. We’ve criticized the eject button’s
placement and recessed nature before (it’s
right underthe falling drive door), and we’ll
do it again. The drive would be much more
user-friendly if you didn’t have to push the
eject button with the fingernail of one hand
while holding
down the drive with
the other hand to
keep the device
from sliding across
your desk. Nice
color, though.
Inside the case is
a Pioneer DVR-A05,
Pioneer’s third-
generation consumer
optical burner,
which— like Apple’s
SuperDrive— can
write to (and read)
General DVD-R (not the high-end Authoring
DVD-R), DVD-RW, CD-R, and CD-RW media.
We burned several discs using the included
Devideon software as well as Roxio’s Toast
Titanium. The drive performed as expected
and didn’t produce any coasters.
One cool fact is that this device is faster
and costs less than the first generation
of Devideon DVD drives (and we won’t
mention the embarrassing state of the
first-generation Devideon software). The
original Devideon housed a Pioneer DVR-
A04 that burned DVD-Rs at a maximum
speed of 2X; the new drive burns at 4X.
Additionally, the new drive can burn CD-Rs
twice as fast (16X) as Its predecessor.
No, it’s not the fastest
drive in the world, but
that’s the drive’s fault,
not Formac’s. The new
Devideon also sells
for $150 less than the
original— we love that.
The included Devideon
authoring software is the
biggest deal about this
package, simply because
Formac filled the void of
an affordable alternative
to buying either Apple’s
$1,000 DVD Studio
Pro ora brand-new
SuperDrive-equipped
Mac with iDVD. While
the Devideon software
Isn’t as mature or polished as iDVD, it’s in
the box, and for the most part, it works,
letting you easily add custom backgrounds,
text, picture objects, and of course, video
to your project. Our main beef here is with
Formac’s definition of chapters: Devideon
only recognizes them as individual movies
which you must import individually, rather
than points that we can define within a
single movie file, as iDVD 3 does.
We tested the Devideon with processed
QuickTime movies and with raw (straight
out of the camera) DV footage. When we
compressed raw DV into MPEG-2 (the
standard DVD video format), the resulting
video played slowly, while the audio played
at normal speed. Strange, but Devideon
had no trouble converting a QuickTime-
exported DV file Into MPEG-2. The manual
recommends starting with DV-PAL or
DV-NTSC (MJPEG) footage— not a problem
if you have QuickTime Pro and some extra
time on your hands. For the record, we
also got good results using regular old
.mov (QuickTime movie) and Sorenson-
compressed files.
The devideon Is a solid hardware-
software package. The hardware itself
rocks (aside from the eject button), but
we wish we could use it with iDVD 3, and
get that Apple fit-and-finish and iDVD’s
unique integration with iTunes and iMovie.
Choice is good, and Devideon gives us just
that— without charging more— which is
great —Andrew Tokuda
Formac’s Devideon 2.0 authoring software is worlds better
than the company’s first Devideon release.
COMPANY: Formac REQUIREMENTS: FireWire-equipped
CONTACT; 510-528-9300, G3. Mac OS 9.2.2 and DiskCopy 6.5, or
www.formac.com OS 1 0.1 .4 or higher
PRICE: $399
GOOD NEWS: Works as a DVD drive should.
Plug-and-burn device. Affordable.
BAD NEWS; Poorly implemented eject button.
Limited DVD-authoring software.
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deskjet 450cbi
PORTABLE INKJET PRINTER
R oad warriors know you can never
count on finding a printer when you
really need one— at least not one that’s
compatible with your Mac. The solution,
of course, is to bring your own. In the
deskjet 450cbi’s case, you’re bringing
along a 13.3-by-3.2-by-7.3-inch, 4.6-pound
(battery included) USB printer that also
plays nice with your infrared-equipped
PDA, CompactFlash cards from your digital
camera, or (with an optional adapter)
a Bluetooth-enabled Mac, PDA, or
cell phone.
Getting this beast working with a Mac
was simple: We followed the quick-start
pamphlet (insert inktanks and install
software from included CD), and when we
Its results are not great, not
terrible, but pretty good.
fired up OS X’s Print Center, the 450cbi was
already on our list of available printers.
Oh, we skipped a step there: buying the
damn USB cable. HP not only stiffs you on
the USB cable, but adds insult to injury by
including a parallel cable instead.
Printing from other supported devices
wasn’t quite as smooth. Printing Word files
from our Visor handheld via infrared and
the included 450cbi-specific version of
BtPrint didn’t work, though we were able
to print from built-in Palm OS apps (Memo
Pad and so forth) via BtPrint. We turned
to DataViz’s Documents to Go ($69.95,
www.dataviz.com) for printing Word
text documents.
The large-purse-
size deskjet 450cbi
packs smart mobile
features into Its
smart-looking (and
more important,
portable) form.
Printing directly from a CompactFlash
card is another feature with a fairly big
but— the card must contain a DPOF (digital
print order format) file, which tells the
printer information such as which image(s)
to print and how many copies. Most
modern digital cameras support DPOF
(see your camera’s documentation to make
sure), but if yours doesn’t, forget about
printing from CompactFlash.
The real test of a printer is how it prints,
and this one performs decently. Its results
are not great, not terrible, but pretty good.
And HP’s driver lets you tweak all manner
of settings, including color saturation,
brightness, and tone; Ink Density; and the
Digital Photo settings, which allegedly
retrofit your digicam snaps with Digital
Flash, Contrast Enhancement, Sharpness,
Smoothing, and SmartFocus.
Since HP sets the Digital Photo effects
to Auto by default, we printed an otherwise
unmodified photo this way, and then again
with all the Digital Photo effects turned
off. The two prints came out more or less
identically. We then mucked up the same
image in Photoshop (by lowering the
contrast 20 percent and applying a thick
blur) and gave the Digital
Photo effects another shot:
The print came out noticeably
better than the onscreen
mucked-up version, mainly
In terms of color brightness
and contrast.
We’re never too keen on
digitally inflated resolutions
This rechargeable Lilon battery
lasted us a couple of hours,
and ft’s built for traveling.
like the 450cbi’s optimized 4,800-by-
1,200-dpi High Resolution setting; we
printed an 8 by 10 photo at this setting and
again at 1,200 by 1,200, and the slightly
improved shadow detail of High Resolution
wasn’t worth the time suck (our 8 by 10
took half an hour at High Resolution,
compared to 7 minutes at the next-highest
setting). Another problem is that such
optimization brings out jPEG artifacts in
most photos, as it did in our half-hour print.
We were impressed when the 450cbi
spit out a dozen 8 by 10 high-quality
photos (at about 7 minutes per page, mind
you) before the power-button LED turned
red, indicating that the battery was 10
percent away from dead. We plugged in
the included combo battery charger and
AC power supply and pushed out 20 more
high-quality 8 by 10 photo prints before the
ink ran out.
Like most things rich in features and nice
to look at, the deskjet 450cbi is pretty high
maintenance. Take the ink-service module,
for example: It captures and stores stray
ink, and if you don’t heed the p rinter’s
onboard LED warning lights that tell you
when the module is almost full, it’ll soon
overflow and make a black, inky mess
(we’d plan ahead and order an extra $10
ink service module from HP).
If you need a printer you can bring along
for on-location printing, you’ll happily
accept the deskjet 450cbi’s quirks (our
favorite is when the printer sends the
Stop Job command back to OS X’s Print
Center for no apparent reason). We’d even
consider this printer for light duty at home,
especially If home is too cramped for a
regular-size desktop printer.
—Niko Coucouvanis
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COMPANY: Hewlett-Packard
CONTACT: 800-752-0900.
www.hp.com
PRICE: $349
REQUIREMENTS: USB-equipped G3, Mac OS
8.6 or later, 64MB RAM (128MB for OS X)
GOOD NEWS: Versatile. Portable. Quiet.
Prints good -quality photos and text.
BAD NEWS: Highest-quality setting is a waste of
time and ink. Occasionally quirky driver.
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StoryBoard
Quick 4
STORYBOARDING SOFTWARE
P lanning a video or film shoot can
be an exercise in controlled chaos.
Knowing in advance every shot you have
to get, every angle, and every scene can
make the difference between meeting your
budget and blowing it out of the water.
PowerProduction Software’s recently
released OS X update to StoryBoard
Quick takes much of the pain out of
planning a shoot.
StoryBoard Quick ships with a fairly
generic set of people, places, and
props you can use to construct scenes.
The included libraries provide several
characters in a wide variety of poses,
such as running, sitting, and jumping.
You also get a pretty good variety of
locations, including diners, streets, and
home interiors. If you aren’t happy with
the locations, you can take snapshots
of real places and import them for use in
your projects.
You lay out scenes in a Frame window,
one frame per shot. Frames can conform
to almost any standard aspect ratio—for
example, full frame or HDTV. You have a fair
amount of control over your composition,
but the tools are basic. All the Items in a
frame remain resizable, and a freehand
drawing tool allows further tweaking.
When you select a character or prop from
a library, you can use a button to cycle
StoryBoard Quick makes basic storyboarding a snap, with libraries of
characters, objects, and backgrounds that you can drop right into the shot.
through the different versions of that item
or scale it up or down. If you’ve imported
a file, StoryBoard Quick lets you set a solid
color in it as a transparency. You can also
flip any item In your frame horizontally or
vertically. Any other graphic manipulation
is pretty much beyond the scope of
this application.
the entire project as an HTML document.
The HTML feature is a great idea, but
unfortunately, unlike with printing,
you don’t have any control over
the output.
StoryBoard Quick’s copy-protection
scheme will make you wince. You must
email PowerProduction Software a key
It’s a great tool for rapidly creating a basic storyboard.
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If you have a group of similar shots,
you can duplicate a frame for reuse or
modification. StoryBoard Quick also
allows you to import text files, such as
shooting scripts, for use as a guide for
creating your frames. Once you’ve created
them, you can use the Overview window
to get a quick glance at your work or
reorganize your shots.
StoryBoard Quick has
a wide array of printing
options. You can choose the
number of boards per page,
set horizontal or vertical
order, and even print a shot
list. You can also export
Individual frames or objects
as graphic files and output
Print out your storyboards
your way by setting the
number of boards per page
or choosing a horizontal or
vertical arrangement.
number generated at launch, which the
company uses to create and send back a
serial number. The key is different each
time you install or upgrade. The software
is also missing some obvious features, like
the ability to batch-export your frames if
you want to put them all into a QuickTime
movie (although you could use the images
created by HTML export). You also can’t
add effects to your objects— say, indicating
that an object is in motion rather than
at rest. Considering its limitations, this
product seems a little expensive at $279.
Complaints aside, StoryBoard Quick
is a great tool for rapidly creating a basic
storyboard. You can adapt the included
characters and locations for almost any
use, and if you need specialized items,
the add-on libraries are there for you.
Even if you are artistically challenged,
you can still get up to speed and create
compelling storyboards for your project
with StoryBoard Quick in less than 30
m i n u te s . — Rick Sanchez
COMPANY: PowerProduction Software
CONTACT: www.powerproduction.com
PRICE: $279.99 ($49.99 for add-on libraries)
REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC,
MacOS9orlater,16MBRAM
GOOD NEWS: Libraries have a good selection
of characters and props. Great print options.
BAD NEWS; No batch image export. Annoying
copy-protection scheme. A little pricey.
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UZR 3D
Professional 1.4
IMAGE-BASED 3D-MODELING SOFTWARE
M aking 3D wireframe models has
traditionally been the realm of
professional animators and hard-core
hobbyists. It requires a mastery of
modeling techniques and complicated,
expensive software. UZR 3D Pro, a
relatively easy and inexpensive image-
based modeler, automates the process—
it*s the next-best thing to a 3D scanner.
UZR performs admirably (surprisingly
so, actually) In extrapolating a batch of
digital photos into a 3D wireframe model
with minimal fuss and not a huge time
investment on your part. The steps are as
It’s the next-best thing
to a 3D scanner.
follows: Print out the photo-stage template
(a pattern of circles that UZR 3D uses
to calibrate the disparate images of the
subject), shoot a bunch of digital photos
of your subject on the template, adjust for
color and exposure as necessary, calibrate
the images (more on that later), mask out
the backgrounds, and finally click UZR 3D’s
3D button.
The trick, of course,
is getting your images
calibrated right so the
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UZR 3D Pro 1.4.1 demo
Once you’re done constructing your model, throw it
into a ray tracer to see it all lit up and shiny.
This action
figure probably
started life as
a wireframe
model, and with
UZR 3D Pro, we
can put her back
in her place.
object’s dimensions and perspective will
match up— it seems a little strange that you
can reposition the circles manually within
UZR 3D (thus forcing a spatial calibration),
but you can’t change their shape or angle
(for tweaking the perspective) once you’ve
done so. What this means Is that at this
stage, you’re more or less at the mercy
of UZR 3D’s fickle preferences, and If the
program doesn’t happen to like one of your
views, you’ll have to reshoot that view.
You can do the masking in your favorite
image editor before importing the pictures
into UZR 3D, which might save you the
torment of hunting for UZR 3D’s brush
resize feature (here’s a hint— hold down the
Command key and drag). UZR 3D’s masking
tools are easy to learn and simple to use
once you get the hang of them, though—
and a tablet definitely comes in handy.
Once you mask out the images,
UZR 3D uses the calibration
information with the image data
and constructs the model.
You can export the constructed
model in your choice of seven
formats: UZR, Cinema 4D’s
CAD, 3D Studio Max’s 3DS,
Alias|Wavefront’s OBJ, AutoCAD’s
DXF, STL (stereolithography), and
good old VRML (virtual reality
markup language). We were
pretty happy with our models, but
invariably there was some extra
appendage we couldn’t get rid of.
Therein lies our main beef with UZR
3D— while it’s a snap to whip up
some hot 3D action, when something goes
wrong, it’s tough to figure out exactly what,
why, or how to fix it. The software comes
with a quick-start manual that’s a little too
quick for an application of this caliber. We
found a PDF manual at UZR’s Web site, but
we’d prefer a more in-depth printed guide.
We do appreciate the plentiful tutorials and
examples UZR provides, available on the
CD and online (after you’ve registered).
As far as fine-tuning our aforementioned
model with the extra appendages,
we had to reshoot a couple of frames,
recalibrate the images, and generate a new
wireframe— which aptly summarizes the
UZR 3D Pro story: It’s a fun app that’s
much more useful if you have a traditional
3D-modelingapp on hand for adding the
final polish.— Pou/ Yoon
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If you prefer to work in Photoshop
for your masking needs, no problem.
UZR 3D Pro recognizes layered PSD
documents with alpha channels and
automatically uses them formasking.
For us dopes who accidentally get the
mask backward, there’s even an option
to swap the subject and background
masks. Calibrate them first in UZR
3D, though— if you spend a lot of time
masking out backgrounds and then find
the program can’t calibrate the images,
that’s time wasted.
COMPANY: UZR
CONTACT: http://uzr.de
PRICE: €516.38 ($55875
USD at press time)
REQUIREMENTS: 733MHz G4.
Mac OS 10.1.5 or later
GOOD NEWS: Easy and straightforward. Supports many common
3D formats. Clever idea.
BAD NEWS; Laborious masking and weird tool interface takes some
getting used to. Sparse documentation. Tough to troubleshoot.
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Big Disk
500GB FIREWIRE HARD DRIVE
L aCie’s new Big Disk 500GB is one
exceptionally well-designed hard drive.
This 5.5-pound big boy stuffs two 3.5-inch,
250GB Maxtor DiamondMax 16 ATA/133
drives into a solid aluminum-alloy case that
dissipates heat so well that an internal fan
isn’t needed— the fact that its power supply
is external helps as well. Its industrial-
strength case makes the FireWire 400 Big
The Big Disk is the best-
built drive we’ve ever had
the pleasure of hefting.
Disk 500GB the best-built hard drive we’ve
ever had the pleasure of hefting.
Although the Big Disk is a big winner in
the style and utility departments, it’s an
also-ran in raw performance. When we
In both weight and capaciousness, the
hefty Big Disk redefines humongous.
ran Pinnacle Systems’ DiskPerformance
utility— part of the company’s CineWave
RT 3.0 for OS X Jaguar driver package— the
5,400-rpm Big Disk 500GB proved to have
an overall average throughput In the low
20MB-per-second range. Not bad, but
that’s only about two-thirds as fast as the
internal 7,200-rpm 80GB IBM ATA/100
drive that came in our test machine, a IGHz
Power Mac G4. Performance when reading
and writing large and small files was also
less than spine-tingling.
The Big Disk’s two drives are spanned
with firmware, fooling your Mac into
thinking they’re one capacious brute
(467GB after formatting). Although it’d
be a plus if OS X could access each drive
separately and make the Big Disk into a
RAID 0 or RAID 1 device, doing so might
confuse less-capable operating systems
(think Redmond, Washington). Too bad
LaCie has such constraints— we’d love to
see how a Big Disk performs as a striped
RAID 0 device over FireWire 800. (FireWire
400 Is too wimpy to take advantage of such
a throughput boost.)
The Big Disk is also available in a 7,200-
rpm 400GB model ($829) that includes an
8MB buffer, four times that of the Big Disk
500GB.— /?//c Mystewski
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COMPANY: LaCle REQUIREMENTS: FireWire-equipped
CONTACT: 503-844-4502, Mac, Mac OS 8.6 or later
www.lacie.com
PRICE: $949
GOOD NEWS: Built like a brick. Quiet operation. Enormous
capacity. Unobtrusive external power brick,
BAD NEWS: Lacks RAID capability despite two internal drives. ■
Mediocre performance. Rotational speed ot only 5AOO rpm,
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Zip 750MB FireWire
External Drive
REMOVABLE-MEDIA DRIVE
hen Iomega came around showing
off the latest Zip drive, the emphasis
was on durability of the media, specifically
as compared to the ubiquitous CD-R media
that, incidentally, is even mor6 prevalent
today than Zip disks were in their heyday.
This sucker’s loud.
As the name implies, the Zip 750 packs
750MB onto each disk; the drive can also
read older Zip disks (100MB and 250MB),
as well as format and write to the 250MB
variety. Older Zip drives, however, can’t
read the new 750MB Zip disks.
The box includes everything you need
to use the drive, including a FireWire cable
Just when you thought the Zip
drive had clicked itself into
extinction, Iomega introduces
the 750MB version.
and OS X versions of lomegaWare, as well
as the Iomega Automatic Backup app and
MusicMatch Jukebox.
So far, so good. But then we fired up
the beast, only to hear a fairly horrendous
ganking noise that sounded as though
it would have crunched a disk if we had
inserted one before plugging in the drive
(note to self...). When we inserted a Zip
disk, we heard the rest of the drive’s
vocabulary: a general whine whenever
the drive accesses the disk, and a louder,
abrupt whir when the disk spins up after
a few minutes’ rest. We’re not being
oversensitive either— this sucker’s loud.
Iomega claims 7.3 MBps speeds (50X in
CD-R terms), which sounds better than our
punk 48X CD burner, but in a head-to-head
race, copying 5,131 files totaling 690MB,
the Zip 750 took 4:30 compared to the 48X
burner’s time of only 3:20. And frankly, we
were surprised the Zip was so fast; copying
the test files back from the Zip 750 to the
Mac took 4:52.
There’s no denying that a Zip disk is
more durable than a CD, but if you value a
quiet workspace, you’ll find a way to live
without this drive.— A///co Coucouvanis
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COMPANY; Iomega
CONTACT: 800-697-8833, www.iomega.com
PRICE: $199.99 (disks are $14.99 each,
$99.99 tor an eight-pack)
REQUIREMENTS: FlreWire-equjpped
Mac. Mac OS 8.6 to 9.x or 10.1 or later
GOOD NEWS: Respectably fast.
High -capacity disks.
BAD NEWS: Disturbingly loud. Disks are
expensive (and you don’t get one with the drive).
Mac4ddict RATED
OGOOO
SO-SO
58 MacAddict April 2003
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK MAOEO
REVIEWS
Artisan Color Reference
System (GDM-C520K)
21 -INCH CRT DISPLAY WITH COLOR CALIBRATOR
ony’s ridiculously named GDM-C520K
is actually a 21-inch CRT display— a
gorgeous specimen with a dark-gray
cabinet, a crystal-clear flat screen, and
bundled color-calibration hardware and
software (hence the hefty price tag).
First, the display itself: This 21-inch
flat-screen has a maximum resolution
of 2,048 by 1,536 pixels, though the
recommended resolution is 1,600 by
1,200 pixels at 85Hz; its aperture-grille
pitch is a tight 0.24mm. The display
quality is fantastic, with bright colors,
great neutral grays, and crisp, clear
small text. As an added bonus, you can
hook up two VGA-connected computers
to the monitor and flip a switch on
the front to toggle back and forth
between them.
The real reason to buy the Artisan
GDM-C520K, however, is its integrated
color-calibration system. Packed in what
looks like a silver mind-control orb from
Logan*s Run, the calibrator suctions onto
your display and plugs into an available
USB port (the keyboard port works fine).
The display itself also connects to your
computervia USB in conjunction with
the normal VGA connection. Launch the
Artisan software, and the calibrator creates
a brilliant red, green, blue, and gray light
show on your screen. The sensor and
This stunning flat-screen CRT with hardware
calibration has an equally stunning price tag.
software take ambient light into account
when calibrating the red, blue, and green
guns in the display.
For the designer who can afford one,
the Sony Artisan GDM-C520K will provide
much joy and happiness. You'll get a high-
quality display and reliable hardware color
calibration.— A/arasu Rebbapragada
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COMPANY: Sony REQUIREMENTS: G3, Mac OS 9.2.2
CONTACT: 800-282-2848, or 10.1 .3 or later, 96MB RAM, two open
www.displaysbysony.com USB ports
PRICE: $1,799.99
GOOD NEWS: Great display. Reiiable color calibrator.
BAD NEWS: Expensive.
Mac/lddict RATED
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REVIEWS
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Freedom Force
ROLE-PLAYING GAME
S lip into your most colorful tights
and come join the Freedom Force in
Patriot City. Prepare to squash hordes
of rampaging supervillains, dinosaurs,
robots, and the alien minions of the evil
Lord Dominion.
Freedom Force, a nostalgic tip of the hat
to Silver Age comic heroes, is a squad-
based, tactical role-playing game that
takes RPG elements out of castles and
It’s more fun than a barrel
of cape-clad monkeys.
dungeons and plops them down in the
middle of Main Street, USA. And if s more
fun than a barrel of cape-clad monkeys.
In true comic-book style, the villainous
alien Lord Dominion has decided to
El Diablo, one of
Freedom Force’s top
superheroes, blasts
dinosaurs with
high-intensity flames.
sprinkle Energy-X— a mysterious,
superpower-creating substance-
on Earth’s nastiest criminals,
creating a race of supervillains to
help him destroy the good guys.
But a rebel alien steals Energy-
X and flees. As fate would have
it, the rebel gets shot down and
canisters of purple gook rain on
our planet, affecting good and evil
folks alike.
MinuteMan (one of the good ones)
quickly builds his Freedom Force, adding
other Energy-X affected superheroes.
Missions are squad based, with up to four
heroes taking on primary and secondary
objectives. You get experience points
for succeeding, and you can use them to
upgrade your superpowers.
The missions and battle sequences are
such fun that you’ll want to try missions
again with different squads just to see how
they turn out. You’ll fight a wide array of
creatures and robots, and you can use all
manner of interactive objects in the fray.
Need a club? Uproot a lamp post. Want to
throw something? Pick up the nearest car.
This game rocks. *Nuf said.— yo/in Lee
COMPANY: MacPIay
REQUIREMENTS: 400MHz G4, Mac
GOOD NEWS: Colorful comic visuals. Solid strategy game.
MacAddict RATED
CONTACT: 214-855-5955,
OS 10.1,5, 192MB RAM, any ATI Radeon
Pure fun to play.
OOOOO
www.macplay.com
or nVidia GeForce video card
BAD NEWS: You’ll be tempted to wear a cape and leotards
PRICE; $39.99
In public, and that's a no-no.
GREAT
F1 Championship
Season 2000
RACING GAME
well as track and weather conditions
and the skill level of your computer-
controlled opponents.
The driving is intense, with cheering
spectators, skidding tires, and the
guttural sound of engines ringing in
your ears. If you bang into someone,
the damage affects your car’s
performance. Most damage can be fixed
in pit stops, but these take up time.
Choose from 22 authentic cars (go,
Minardi!) and take them out on any of 17
authorized tracks, from the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway to the streets of Monte
Carlo. There are four driving modes. Test
Day allows a choice of track and as many
laps as you wish, with no time limit. Quick
Cockpit view — scant inches from the ground in
these low-slung muscle machines-— heightens
the feel of speed.
Race pits you against competition in a
single race. Grand Prix gives you a weekend
of racing on the circuit. And finally, there
is the Championship Season itself, with
cutthroat races at all 17 tracks.
A promised force-feedback patch should
be available by the time you read this, which
will add to the white-knuckle fun that is FI
Championship Season 2000— John Lee
G amers, start your engines. You’re
about to plunge into the rushing,
roaring world of Formula One racing. FI
Championship Season 2000 puts you on
the track (17 of them, actually) to race
against all the big-name drivers or up to
seven of your friends on a local network.
Rookies will want to start with Formula
One Driving School, where you learn the
basics of FI driving, such as starting the
race and taking tight turns.
As you become a better FI driver, you’ll
appreciate this sim’s realistic physics
and almost infinite
customizability; you can
adjust every mechanical
aspect of your car, as
ON THE
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F1CS 1.0.2 demo
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COMPANY: Ferallnteractive
CONTACT: www.feral.co.uk
PRICE: $49.95
REQUIREMENTS: 333MHz G3
(500MHz recommended), Mac OS 9.1
or 10.1 or later. 128MB RAM, 32MB 3D
graphics card, OpenGL 1.2
GOOD NEWS: Life in the fast lane. Muscle cars. Tons of options.
MacAJdict RATED
Keen feet for speed.
BAD NEWS: Requires a hot-rod Mac to keep the traffic moving.
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GREAT
60 MacAWict April 2003
REVIEWS
SuperScrubber
DISK-SANITIZING UTILITY
| t*s 11 o'clock— do you know where your
personal information is? Are you sure?
You know the story: Evil hackers comb
the Internet for social-security numbers,
credit-card and bank-account information,
and other sensitive data that they can then
use to do anything from funding a quick
Peace of mind is easily
worth 30 bucks.
shopping spree to completely destroying
your credit rating by opening and abusing
new lines of credit.
And it's not just through
the Internet— there are
plenty of ways your
personal information can
fall into the wrong hands.
SuperScrubber
protects your
personal
information
by completely
obliterating it.
ON THE
DISC
SuperScrubber
1.0.1 demo
SuperScrubber's trick is scrubbing
your hard drive clean so you can sell
your Mac, give it away, or (perish the
thought) landfill it— without worrying
about whether you deleted all your
sensitive information. Think you're
safe because you deleted everything?
Think again. With a little technical savvy
and the right data- recovery tools, anyone
can recover data you thought you erased.
That's because the data is still there
until you save enough data on the disk
to overwrite it— and even then residual
data remains.
SuperScrubber attacks the problem
head-on, writing gibberish to a disk and
then overwriting it with more gibberish
successively until there's no trace of your
original data. The process can take some
time, so it's good that SuperScrubber
has preconfigured levels of cleaning:
Simple, Simple + Verify, Strong, Military,
and Paranoid.
Paranoiacs that we are, we went full-bore
and put a Paranoid clean on our internal
10GB drive in just over 3 hours (Simple
took less than 15 minutes).
If you’re so paranoid that you don't even
put sensitive data on your Mac to begin
with, you don't need this app— for almost
anyone else, though, the peace of mind is
easily worth 30 bucks —Niko Coucouvanis
COMPANY: Jiiva REQUIREMENTS: Any Mac
CONTACT; 503-520-9500, www.jiiva.com capable of running Mac OS 10.2,
PRICE: $29.99 128MB RAM. CD drive
GOOD NEWS: Military-level disk sanitization for $30.
BAD NEWS: Makes you feel paranoid.
MacyAddict rated
OOOOO
GREAT
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CopyPaste-X 1.5.1
CLIPBOARD ENHANCER
E very so often a piece of
shareware comes along that
makes us wonder how we ever lived
without it— such is CopyPaste-X, the
turbo Clipboard utility on steroids.
CopyPaste-X augments the good old Mac
OS Clipboard In all kinds of ways: It lets you
record and remember Clipboard items, edit
Clipboard contents, save copied text (and pictures) to an archive,
and the main attraction: use ten Clipboards simultaneously,
typing Command-C and a numberto differentiate between them.
Handy floating palettes keep your clippings onscreen; you can
minimize the palettes, or hide them entirely and access your
boards via keystrokes, contextual menus, and
the CopyPaste Dock icon.
If you use the clipboard, you'll love CopyPaste,
—Niko Coucouvanis
Ten concurrent
Clipboards?
Yes, please!
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DISC
CopyPaste 4.5 and
CopyPaste-X 1.5.2
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COMPANY; Script Software
CONTACT: www.sciiptsoftware.com
REQUIREMENTS; PowerMac,
Mac OS 10.1 or later
PRICE: $20 (Shareware) |
GOOD NEWS: Gives you tons of Clipboards.
Mac/Addict RATED 1
BAD NEWS: Redundant in some apps.
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GREAT 1
HomePlug Et hernet
Bridge
NETWORK BRIDGE
U nlike the rest of logear's PowerLine |
gear, which networks PCs through
a building’s electrical power lines,
the platform-independent HomePlug
Ethernet Bridge plays nice with Macs.
The problem is, it doesn't do much;
it simply bridges your Mac— or LAN hub, DSL modem, printer, or
any network node— to another node. Say you've got an office In
the attic and an old laser printer chained up in the basement. Buy
two HomePlug units, attach one between the Mac's Ethernet port
and a standard AC wall outlet, and attach the otherto the printer.
Voila— no Ethernet cable strung throughout the house or office.
HomePlug's throughput (14 Mbps), range (990 feet of power
line), and plug-and-play ease of use make it a respectable bridge,
but in a Mac environment, its uses are limited.— A//ko Coucouvanis
PowerLine networking
would be cool — if It
worked on Macs.
COMPANY; logear
CONTACT; 949-453-8782 or
866-946-4327, www.iog8ar.com
PRICE: $79 per unit (street)
REQUIREMENTS: Etfiernet- equipped Macs
and/or devices located near AC power outlets
GOOD NEWS; Supremely handy for specific uses.
BAD NEWS: Essentially worthless for most of us.
Mac/Addict RATED
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THE BEST OF THE BEST FROM RECENT REVIEWS
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MOTU Digital Performers
$795.00
Feb/Q2,p58
Pro audio app has a great array of features.
i.'
PropellerHead Software Reason 2
$399.00
Mar/03, p50
The best software -sy nth bargain available today.
Roxio Toast with Jam 5
$189.95
Sep/02, p49
Burn CDs, MP3 CDs, DVDs, and edit audio.
■
GAMES
mmmwmm
Ambrosia Escape Velocity: Nova
$30.00
8ep/02, p48
Enjoy the perverse thrill of galactic domination.
Aspyr Ciive Barker's Undying
$39.95
Nov/02, p50
Sophisticated shooter has a chilling story line.
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Aspyr Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
$49.95
Feb/03, p37
Fantastic gameplay with weapons and the Force.
L:’
Aspyr Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
$50.00
Oct/02, p43
WWIt first-person shooter is a surefire classic.
Aspyr Return to Castle Wolfenstein
$49.95
Aug/02, p42
What’s more satisfying than killing zombie Nazis? P
Aspyr The Sims Hot Date
$29.95
Sep/02, p46
The Sims obey Petula Clark and go downtown. g
Graphic Simulations Black and White
$50.00
Jun/02, p54
The battle between good and evil can really be a blast. |!'
MacPIay Icewind Dale
$49.99
Aug/02, p51
Beautifully rendered RPG offers deep gameplay.
MacPlay No One Lives Forever
$49.9
9
Mar/03, p49
A beautiful spy, sly foes, nifty gadgets, fast action—
nice. ^
MacSoft Max Payne
$40.0
Dec/02, p42
Max seeks revenge— and gets plenty of it— in this FPS.
GRAPHICS AND LAYOUT
Adobe InDesign 2.0
$699.0
0
May/02, p50
Look out, Quark— Adobe’s rival layout tool kicks butt.
Adobe Photoshop 7
$609.0
0
Jul/02, p46
Picture-perfect pixel pusher moves to Mac OS X.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2
$99.0
0
Dec/02, p40
It has most of Photoshop’s power for $500 less.
Macromedia Director MX
$1,199.0
0
Mar/03, p46
Multimedia developers need took no further than Director.
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
$399.0
0
S0p/O2, p44.
Our favorite Web-design tool gets a strong upgrade.
Macromedia Flash MX
$499.0
0
Jui/02,p51
It started In animation; now It can do anything.
PRODUCTIVITY AND UTILITIES
Bare Bones Software BBEdit 7.0.1
$179.0
0
Mar/03, p52
By far the best text editor money can buy.
Dantz Retrospect Express 5.0
$79.0
0
Aug/02, p50
Indispensable backup software goes Mac OS X.
Microsoft Office v. X
$499.0
0
Feb/02, p42
The 800-pound gorilla of productivity applications.
VIDEO AND ANIMATION
Adobe After Effects 5.5
$649.0i
0
May/02, p49
Motion-graphics stud improves Its 3D powers.
Apple DVD Studio Pro 1.5
$999.0i
0
Oct/02, p55
Apple’s essential DVD-burning app gets even better.
Apple Final Cut Pro 3
$999.0i
0
Apr/02, p45
Pro-level video editor is a real-time revelation.
AUDJD
Apple 20GB iPod
$499.01
0 1 Nov/02, p45
More storage, cool accessories— it’s all good. |
Digidesign Mbox
$495.01
0 1 May/02, p59
Audio interface is a traveling musician’s delight j
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Canon PowerShot S230 Digital Elph
$399.01
0
Mar/03, p48
Great 3.2-megaplxe! camera in a tiny, low-cost package.
Nikon Coolpix 885
$549.9'
9
Feb/02, p61
Cute, capable camera captures great images.
Olympus C-4000 Zoom
$499.0
0
Jan/03, p52
Great image quality, 4 megapixels, and versatile controls.
DISPLAYS
Apple Cinema HO Display
$1,999.0
0
Aug/02, p40
This 23-inch, 1,920-by-1,200-plxel beauty inspires lust.
Formac gallery 2010
$1,699.0
0
Jan/03, p47
Bright fast, and huge— and it costs only $.0009 per pixel.
PRINTERS
Brother 1870N
$699.0
0
Aug/02, p45
Need a sturdy laser printer? This one’s a workhorse.
Epson Stylus Photo 2200
$699.0
0
OcV02. p42
The most stunning photo printer we've ever tested.
Canon CanoScan LiDE 30
Epson Perfection 2450 Photo
STORAGE
Maxtor Persona! Storage 5000XT
WiebeTech MicroGB 40GB
Entry-level scanner gets the job done inexpensively.
Sophisticated scanner also handles transparencies.
Solid construction, push-button backup, and 250GB.
FireWire-equipped CD-RW drive is freaky fast.
Cool aluminum FireWire hard drive holds s
Don t you wish you
were half as cute
and powerful?
NEW THIS
MONTH;
PowerShot
S230 Digital
Elph
Canon
$399
Mar/03, p48
D on’t let this sweet little
camera’s diminutive size and
good looks fool you— the Canon
PowerShot 5230 Digital Elph is
no mere toy. This 3.2-megapixel
beauty comes equipped with a
2x optical zoom and a 1.5-inch
color LCD screen, plus enough
preset modes and photo effects
to keep you snapping happily into
the night— and It has a powerful
LNon rechargeable battery that’ll
keep those snaps a-snappin’. It’s
so small— think Altoids tin— that
you’ll be tempted to make it your
constant companion. As reviewer
Kris Fong said, “We’d gladly take
the S230 with us everywhere to
get nice, high-resolution Images.”
62 MacAddlct April 2003
PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK MADEO
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Introducing...
your next desktop computer.
This is the year of the notebook computer - stand.
The iCurve - Invisible Laptop Stand is the key to
replacing your desktop machine with a new notebook.
It elevates your screen to a comfortable eye-level
height. It raises the notebook off the desk - making
room for a full-size keyboard and mouse. And it helps
air circulate and keep your new 'hot' laptop cool.
Gain portability without sacrificing desktop
comfort. Add an iCurve to your notebook
and have the best of both worlds.
iCurve
Invisible Laptop Stand
USB Audio Interface
• Adds stereo audio input to your Mac
• Plug-and-Play, no software required
• Portable, no installation or power needed
• Supports MP3, QuickTime and AIFF files
iCurve
Invisible Laptop Stand
• Raises screen to the perfect height
• Cools laptop for optimum performance
• Clears desk for full-size keyboard & mouse
• Specifically designed for iBooks & TiBooks
iTrip
FM Modulator for iPod
• Play your iPod through any FM radio
station in your car, truck or boat
• iPod Powered - no battery necessary
• Fits perfectly on top - no dongle or cable
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“'HOW TO
because inquiring minds have the right to be inspired
GOT A QUESTION?
NEED ADVICE?*
WE
CAN
HELP
MULTIPLE IPERSONAUTIES
How can I give my Ethernet port
multiple IP Addresses in OS X?
Open the Network system preference pane
and select Network Port Configurations
from the Show pop-up menu to see a list of
all your available network ports. Highlight
your Ethernet port in the list and click the
Duplicate button. Name it whateveryou
want and click the Apply Now button.
You can now give the duplicate Ethernet
port another IP address.
PRINTERS AND WINDOWS
How can I print to a shared Windows
printer in Mac OS X?
Use Gimp-Print (free, http://gimp-print
.sourceforge.net/IVlacOSX.php3), which
enhances Mac OS X’s
CUPS Unix printing
system to support many
older printers and shared
/ " ON THE
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Gimp-Print 4.2.5
Windows printers with available print
drivers. Install Gimp-Print, open the Print
Center application (Applications > Utilities),
hold down the Option key (this unlocks
the extra print options), and click the Add
button. From the top pop-up menu, select
Advanced to get access to additional device
choices. From the Device pop-up menu,
select Windows Printer Via SAMBA and
enter the
IP address
of the
computer
hosting the
printer.
Reach out
and share
a Windows
printer.
THE MULTISESSIONS
How can I create multisession CDs
in OS X?
Multisession CDs let you conserve CD
media by burning data to only a portion
of the CD, the remainder of which you can
burn later. There are three ways to create
them. The fastest way is to use Roxio*s
Toast ($99.95, www.roxio.com). The
next-fastest— and cheaper— way is to use
a utility called CDSession Burner ($17,
www.sentman.com/burner). Or you can use
OS X's built-in utility. Disk Copy— it*s free,
but it's not easy. To use Disk Copy, create a
disk image (File) New >
Blank Image) just a little
bigger than the data you
want to burn to CD. Next,
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-^-^ - ■4 Internet Printing Protocol (http)
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copy the data to the disk image you just
created. Finally, select Burn Image from the
File menu and select the Allow Additional
Burns check box in the extended dialog.
You can make multisession CDs on the
cheap with CDSession Burner
X-RATED BOOKMARKS
How can i transfer my OS 9
Web bookmarks to OS X?
If you use Internet Explorer, drag the file
Favorites.html (aka your bookmarks)
from the System Folder (System Folder >
Preferences > Explorer) to your OS X
user folder (Users > user name > Library >
Preferences > Explorer folder). If you use
Netscape, dragthe file Bookmarks.html
from your System Folder (System Folder >
Preferences > Netscape Users > username)
to your OS X user folder (Users > user name >
Library > Mozilla > Profiles > username),
MORE WORKGROUP
NAME CHANGES
Is there an easy way to create custom
workgroup names for Windows
file sharing?
In the January 2003*s Ask Us section, we
showed you how to use the Terminal to
POP QUIZ
Apple He games like
Berzap can be yours
again— in OS X.
Quick Answers to Quick Questions
REUSE, RECYCLE
I’ve upgraded the hard drive in my
iMac— what can I do with the old drive?
Turn it into an external FireWire hard disk
with a FireWire drive enclosure such as the
owe Mercury FireWire Case Kit with Oxford
911 Chipset ($94.99, www.macsales.com).
/index. htm. It looks a little dated now,
but it's still funny.
DESKTOP ASAP
What’s the fastest way to navigate
to the desktop In Open and Save
dialog boxes?
Use the Command-D keyboard shortcut,
(freeware, http://apple2.interga lactic
.de). For more information about
emulators, check outwww.emulation.net,
FAKE WINDOWS ERASE
Where is that cooi Web site that makes
it look like your computer is erasing
Windows and installing the Mac OS?
Check out www.yaromat.com/macosS
FULL FRONTAL USB
Can t install a front-panel USB hub
in my 04?
If you have a pre- Quicksilver G4 ora
APPLE HE IN TEN
How can \ run Apple He software
in OS X?
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How can I find and learn about Unix
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Use the man command, which brings up Unix's
built-in manual pages. For example, type man
tcpdump to get the exact name, switches, and full
description of the tcpdump command. If you forget
the exact name of a command, use the -f and -k
switches to do a search. For example, type man -f
password to get a list of commands pertaining to
passwords. Type man -k password to perform a keyword search for password.
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Stick it to the Man.
'‘The dog ate my homework” is no longer
a yalid excuse in our digital age. Neither is
“I left my work at home.” To alleviate your
absent-minded self, we show you how to
tap into a Mac remotely and grab those all-
important files.
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below the optical drive^ you can install USB and choose the format to which you want to
where a Zip drive would usually go. Check convert it.
out StarTech's 2 FireWire 4 USB 3.5 Say Front
Panel Hub ($73.99, www.startech.com). STOP MOVING
Vm trying to drag a file into a folder in
the Dock, but items In the Dock keep
moving. Make it stop.
Hold down the Command key while dragging
and the Dock will stay in place.
THAT DARN TRASH!
Why can't I empty my Trash?
The most common reason is that your Trash
items are locked. Highlight them, select Get
info from the File menu, and uncheck the
Locked check box.
X ANIMATED GIFS
How can f create and view animated
GIFs in OS X?
Try Stone Design's GIFfun (free, www.stone
.com). DragyourGIFfile onto the Apple
Preview app Icon to see all the frames.
FREE FILE CONVERSION
Whaf s the cheapest way to convert
JPEGs to TIFFs?
Use the OS X Preview application. Open
72 Create Photo-Realistic
Shadows
it’s easy to cast doubt or cast your vote,
but casting a
shadow where
one never fell gets
a bit trickier, if
you don’t want a
photo-composited
subject to
float within its
background,
create a shadow.
74 Create a Video CD
You may be pinching pennies to save up for
a DVD burner, but in the interim, you can
play your iMovie masterpieces on the boob
tube via a standard DVD player. Here’s how.
create custom workgroup names in Jaguar’s
built-in Windows file sharing. MacAddict
reader Ben Apollonio showed us an easier
way using the OS X Directory Access
application (Applications > Utilities): Check
the SMB box in the Services pane, click
the Configure button, and type in the new
workgroup name.
PART YOUR DRIVE
How do you partition a drive in OS X?
Boot your computerto your OS X Install CD
(restart while holding down the C key) and
choose Open Disk Utility from the File menu.
With the Disk Utility open, highlight your
disk on the left side and click the Partition
tab. From the Volume Scheme pop-up
choice, choose the number of partitions you
wish to create and then click the Partition
button in the lower-right corner. Remember:
Partitioning erases the hard drive
completely, so back up your data first.
You partition your drive like you’d part
your hair, sort of.
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70 Personalize Your
Form Letters
Ever get that warm, fuzzy feeling when you
read a letter that opens with “Dear valued
reader?” Neither do we. But if you must
send out standard form letters to clients,
customers,
and the like,
here’s how to
personalize even
the most generic
mailings.
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A A ^ HOW TO
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Share Files
Remotely
by Carol S. Holzberg and Kris Fong
WHAT YOU NEED
• Two Macs running Mac OS 9.x or Mac OS X
• An Internet connection
E ver find yourself working on your Mac at the office when you
realize you’ve left one of your work files (and/or your brain)
at home? If you don’t live a convenient 15 minutes away,
your work generally won’t get done until the next day (and you’ll
spend the rest of the day playing cat-and-mouse with your boss).
Of course, if you set up your Mac at home for remote access, you
can have all your files at your fingertips from almost anywhere on
the planet-well, except maybe in some remote hot-tub location.
Share Files on an OS 9.x Mac
Start Sharing In the Finder, select Chooser
from the Apple menu, and engage the Active button In
the resulting window to turn on AppleTalk. Then select
Control Panels from the Apple menu, and select File
Sharing to open its window. Click the Start/Stop tab, enter
your user name in the Owner Name field, type your password
In the Owner Password field, and give your Mac a name in the
Computer Name field if these fields aren’t already filled in. Jot
down the displayed IPaddress— you'll need it to connect (if you
have a dynamic IP address, don’t disconnect from the Internet
or the number will
more than likely
change). Check the
Enable File Sharing
Clients To Connect
Over TCP/IP box and
then click Start to
enable File Sharing.
Click Start and then
wait for File Sharing
to finish starting
up before you close
the window.
Allow Wake-up Calls To share files, you need to
keep the computer that serves them turned on. However,
if this Mac is set to go nighty-night and allows the screen
saver to kick in, you won’t be able to connect to it unless
you set it to wake up on call. From the Apple menu, select Control
Panels, then Energy Saver. Click the Advanced Settings tab and in
the Wake Options section, check the top two boxes; this forces your
Mac to wake from slumber when you or your friends try to access the
machine remotely. (If these settings are missing from your Energy
Saver control panel, set your Mac to never sleep.) If you connect to
the Internet via a modem, check the bottom box too.
Whether your soon-to-be-file-serving Mac is running Mac OS 9.x
or Mac OS X, here’s how to allow yourself and any other important
(and trusted) person or team— no matter where they are— access
to files on your Mac. Do keep in mind that yes, you can access
any Mac remotely as long as you have the proper permission and
Internet access, but you won’t be able to access it if you forget to
leave that Mac powered on and connected to the Internet.
Invite Others ifyou’ re the only one sharing, skip
ahead to step 3. Ifyou want to share files with other people,
in the File Sharing window click the Users & Groups tab to
display its options. For every person to whom you want to
allow access, click New User, enter a user name in the Name field,
type a password in the Password field, and check the Allow User To
Change Password box ifyou want to allow that option- Then select
Sharing from the Show pop-up menu and check the Allow User To
Connect To This Computer box. Select Remote Access from the Show
pop-up, and check the Allow User To Dial In To This Computer box. To
set up group access, back in the Users & Groups tab click New Group,
type a name for the group in the Name field, and then drag any user
from the File Sharing
window onto the
New Group window.
Close the window.
Create a user for
every person to
whom you want to
give access — you can
allow those you trust
to change their
own password.
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4 Enable Remote Access From the Apple
menu, select Control Panels, then Remote Access. In
the Remote Access window, enter your user name in
the Name field and password in the Password field.
From the RemoteAccess menu, select TCP/IP. In the resulting
window, select PPPfrom the Connect Via pop-up menu, select
Using PPP Server from the Configure pop-up, and close the
window (click Save when asked). Then select Answering from
the RemoteAccess menu. In the Answering dialog, check the
Answer Calls box and check the Allow TCP/IP Clients To Connect
Using PPP box. Enter the IP address of this machine in the Default
Client IP Address field, check Allow Client To Use Own IP Address,
click OK, and close the Remote Access window.
Enable your Mac to
answer calls from other
computers via the
Remote Access options.
5 Select Files to Share You may be feeling
generous, but it’s not wise to share the contents of your
entire hard drive with others— not even yo* momma.
Instead, be selective about who has access to which
folders and/or files. Select a folder and press Command-1 (Get Info).
Select Sharing from the Show pop-up menu, and then check the
Share This Item And Its Contents box. Select one of your users ora
group from the User/Group pop-up, and then select a preference
from the Privilege pop-up— Read & Write for full access. Read Only
for download access, or Write Only for upload access. That’s it— give
your trusted cronies their user names and passwords and your IP
address, and remember to keep this Mac turned on and connected
to the Internet if you
want to provide access.
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Choose how much file
access you’re giving
your guests from
the Privilege pop-up
menu— believe It or
not, we trust Homer.
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6 Grab Files Remotely You must be connected
to the Internet to grab files from a Mac remotely. OS
Xers; Select Connect To Server from the Go menu in
the menu bar, and in the Address field of the resulting
dialog, type a/p.*// followed by the IP address of your remote
machine (for example, afp://192.128.123.456). Click Connect. In
the dialog that appears, choose Registered User, enter your user
name and password for that machine, click Connect, and you’re
in— choose the volume to access from the Connect window,
and its server icon appears on your desktop. OS 9ers: From the
Apple menu, select Chooser, choose AppleTalk Active in the
resulting window, click AppleShare, and click Server IP Address.
In the dialog that comes up, type the IP address In the Enter The
Server Address field and click Connect. Enter your user name
and password for that machine in the resulting dialog, and click
Connect. In the server window, select the desired volume(s) and
click OK— the volume icon(s) appear on your desktop.
Once Homer
enters the name
and password
we set for him,
he gains access
to our shared
Music volume
on his desktop.
Share Files on an OS X Mac
1 start File Sharing From the Apple menu, select
System Preferences. In the resulting window, click the
Sharing preference to open its options. Jaguar cats: Enter a
name for your Mac In the Computer Name field (if one isn’t
there already), click the Services tab, and check the Personal File
Sharing box to turn on sharing, jot down the server address (afp://
your IP address). Pre-Jaguar kitties: Click the File & Web tab, type
a name In the Computer Name field (if one isn’t there), and in File
Sharing Off, click Start, jot down the IP address displayed. If you
have a dynamic IP address, do not disconnect your Mac from the
Internet or the number will more than likely change.
To access this
machine remotely,
make sure to write
down the server
address at the bottom
of this screen.
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68 ^
HOWTO
share files remotely
2 Share with Others You don’t need to enable Remote
Login With OS X (unless you want to connect via a secure shell
with the Terminal— another tutorial altogether), so for every
person to whom you’d like to give remote access, create a new
user. In System Preferences, click Accounts to open its panel. Click New
User; in the resulting pane, enter a name and password (plus verification)
in the appropriate fields. If your not-as-smart-as-you pal does Windows,
check the Allow User To Log In From Windows box, then click Save
to create the user. Repeat for others, and then dole out names and
passwords. Note: We don’t advise allowing remote users to administer
your computer unless you trust them with your life (and your Mac).
Create a new,
nonadministrative
user for every
person to whom
you want to give
remote access.
3 Allow Wake-up Calls If your Mac is
sleeping, no one can access its files remotely
unless you set it to wake up when contacted. In
System Preferences, click Energy Saver to open
its options panel, and then click the Options tab. Under
Wake Options, place a check in both boxes to allow
remote users to rouse your Mac.
Don’t forget to allow the Energy Saver
preference to wake up your Mac.
You can’t access files remotely if the
machine’s in deep sleep.
4 store Files for Sharing Unless you’re the
administrator, by default OS X allows remote access
to your user’s Public and Sites folders with read-
only access. To share a folder or file, place it inside
your Public folder (use Sites for Web stuff). To change access
privileges, click a file or folder to select it, press Command-1
(Get Info), and click the Ownership & Permissions disclosure
triangle. From the Access pop-up menu under Group, select
Read & Write for full access. Read Only for download access,
or Write Only for drop-box access. Repeat for other folders
and files. Note: By default, all users belong to a generic group.
Don’t attempt to alter groups unless you’re privy to Netinfo
Manager, or you could really muck things up.
To give users
more than just
read-only access
to a folder or file,
select Read &
Write from the
Group Access
pop-up menu.
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5 Get Connected To access
files remotely from a file-sharing
Mac, OS Xers should select Connect
To Server from the Go menu. In
the resulting dialog, type o/p.*// followed
by your IP address in the Address field and
click Connect. In the Connect dialog, choose
Registered User, type your user name and
password, click Connect, choose a volume
to mount from the window that appears, and
click OK. OS 9ers: From the Apple menu,
select Chooser. In the Chooserwindow,
select AppleTalk Active, click AppleShare,
and click Server IP Address. In the resulting
dialog, enter the IP address, and click OK.
In the n?xt dialog, choose Registered User, enteryour user name and password, click
Connect, select a volume to mount from the Connect dialog, and click OK.
Address: <jtfp;//lS4.2S7.69.123
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After typing our remote Mac’s IP
address, we clicked Connect to make
a love connection with Barney.
PROBLEMS? TRY THIS
If you’re a Jaguar user and get the dreaded
“Error = -36” alert when you try to tap into
your remote Mac via the Connect To Server
command, launch your Web browser,
enter the IP address in the URL field, and
press Return to connect. Connect To
Server supports only WebDAV-supported
servers, and will display the error if y ou’re
trying to connect to a server that doesn’t
use WebDAV.
Carol S. Holzberg, Ph.D„ is an educational
Qj technology specialist, computer iournaUst, and
anthropologist, and is also the technology coordinator
at three schools in western Massachusetts.
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Personalize Your
Form Letters
by Kris Fong and Rod Lawton
WHAT YOU NEED
• AppleWorks ($79, free with consumer Macs,
www.apple.com)
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^ hich letter would you rather read— one that starts off "To whom it may
concern” or one that opens with “Dear Homer”? When you need to send
a snail-mail letter to a lengthy list of people, how you address your
recipient can become the deciding factor on whether that person reads your letter
or turns it into a two-point shot into the circular file. Rather than start off your
message with a generic “Hello” or “Dear Sir/ Madam” you can set up your word
processor to give your form letter a personal touch— automatically.
Luckily for you, Apple's AppleWorks contains a feature called mail merge,
which lets you automatically address a letter to individual people as well as
pepper it with other personal references, like the last time you and your client
spoke, the product or services he or she last purchased from you, and more-
even though you're sending the same basic letter to everyone. All you need are
two files; a form letter and a contact database. Here's how to set it all up.
Form letters are so unfriendly, but with AppleWorks’
mail-merge feature, you can disguise generic mailings
as more-personal letters.
I Drum Up Some Contacts You’ll need to create an
AppleWorks contacts database from scratch if you don't already
have one, or import tab-delimited data from another database
like FileMaker Pro or Entourage. Launch AppleWorks and click
Database in the Starting Points palette. In the resulting dialog, define the
fields you want the database to display, such as first name, last name,
phone, and so on (if you're importing tab-delimited data, make sure to
keep the field names the same as those in your older database). Type a
corresponding name in the Field Name field, select the Field Type from
the drop-down menu (Text, Date, Name, and so on), and click Create.
For more personalization, add fields such as the date you and the client
last spoke, the product last purchased, and the name of the client's
significant other. When finished, click Done to create the database.
Define Database Fieids
Field Name:
Last Name
First Name
Street Address
City
State
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and then click Modify.
Define what fields you want displayed in
your contacts manager— anything from
basic address information to personal
blackmatf material (if that’s your MO).
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2 Finesse and Fill the Database as it
stands, your database displays names and fields in
the order In which you created them. If you want to
alterthis look, select Layout from the Layout menu
and move content around, change fonts and colors, extend
or shorten fields, add additional fields, or do whatever else
you want. If you’re importing data, at this point skip to step
3. Otherwise select Browse from the Layout menu, and then
enter your contact data or paste in information from other
contact software (Apple Address Book, Microsoft Outlook
Express, and the like). Press the Tab key to jump between
fields, and press Command-R to start a new record. Save
your database when finished.
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Date Last Spoke |2f14/03
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The more fields in your contact manager, the more persona! content you
can merge into a form letter.
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change the view to list multiple
contacts. From the Layout menu,
select List, which displays each record in a
single row and the fields in columns. If you're
importing data, drag and drop the exported
tab-delimited file into the AppleWorks
database to add the contacts. If you want to
change the order of the displayed fields, click
a field name in the top row and drag it to another location in the row. To avoid cutting off words
in a column, dick and drag any separation line between columns to widen the space. To extend
rows, dick and drag any separation line between rows in the first (blank) column. To alphabetize
contacts by last name, select Sort Records from the Organize menu, select Last Name from the
Field List column, dick Move, and then click OK. When finished, save your database.
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Say Hello Next up is addressing your form letter.
From the File menu, select New, then Word Processing to
1 open a blank document (if you have your own AppleWorks
letterhead template, open this file instead). To begin the
greeting, type Dear, Hello, or something similar; type a space; and
then select Mail Merge from the File menu. In the resulting dialog,
navigate to and select your new contacts database file, and click
Open. In the resulting Mail Merge palette, select First Name (or
whatever you named the field with this info) from the Fields column,
dick Insert, and type a comma (,). The field name appears inside
double angle brackets («») in the text. If you created a title field
to designate Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., or Dr., insert it after Dear, press
the space bar, and then insert Last Name (or whatever you named
the field with this info) for a more formal greeting. For quicker mall
handling when It
ultimately comes
time to stuff
envelopes, insert a
name and address
prior to the greeting.
We prefaced our
greeting with our
recipient’s address by
using mail merge and
the appropriate fields
in our database.
5 Write Your Blah, Blah, Blahs Now write
your letter. For more personalization, compose your
letter in a Mad Libs-style layout, choosing appropriate
fields to insert from the Mail Merge palette. For
example, you can write something like “I hope you're having
fun with the «Last Product»," referring to the Last Product field
in your database. Choose fields wisely— If you mail-merge a
field you've left blank in some database contacts, the merged
Insertion point will show nothing in these folks' letters. Make
sure the cursor in your document is at the exact point where
you want to Insert a field, and type the appropriate space.
punctuation, or
carriage return to
keep your letter
formatted correctly.
Then save the file.
Here’s our
completed form
letter. Personalized
content will replace
the corresponding
fields displayed
inside double
angle brackets.
6 Print It Out If you want to, say, send letters only to clients in Hawaii,
press Command-F (Find) in your database, type HI in your State field, and
press Return to display only Hawail-residing clients. Otherwise, make sure
all clients are displayed (select Show All Records from the Organize menu),
and then click Merge in the word processor’s Mail Merge palette. The resulting
dialog gives you three output choices. Select Send Documents To Printer to print
one personalized copy of your form tetter for each contact. Select Save In A New
Document to have the application create a single multipage word processor file,
containing every letter. Or select Save Each Final Document On Disk to save each
personalized letter as a separate file. Pick your
preference and click Continue. Depending on
your choice, either click Print in the resulting Print
dialog, or save the file or files to a desired location
for later printing.
'JTs, Dear«Name», We hope
you enjoy this article but
will hunt you down In «City» if
you use mall merge for spamming
purposes. Sincerely, Kris and Rod
Mail Merge Destination
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79 A howto
/ ^ create photo-realistic shadows
Create Photo-
Realistic Shadows
by Kris Fong
WHAT YOU NEED
• An image editor that supports layers,
such as Adobe Photoshop Elements ($99,
www.adobe.com) or Photoshop ($609)
• A digital photo of a subject
With and without: If you want to keep a subject grounded In
a photo composite, create a shadow.
# ON THE
JtPISC
MacAddict Shadow
tutorial file
G etting great-looking shadows in your digital pics
is easy— just go outside and shoot something on a
sunny day. Barring an outdoor excursion, though,
creating digital shadows is tricky but essential if you want
to swap out a subject’s background and replace it with a
clean backdrop. Without shadows, subjects float against
their backdrops instead of appearing grounded, calling
more attention to your obvious image manipulation. If you
want to make the trickery inconspicuous, create a shadow.
Here’s one way to do so in Photoshop.
1 Create a Clean Backdrop Open your
photo or penguin.tif (on the Disc) in Photoshop, select
all (Command-A), copy the layer (Command-C), and
paste It into a new layer (Command-V) to create Layer
1. To create a seamless white backdrop, from the Layer menu
select New, then Layer, and click OK in the resulting dialog to
set up Layer 2. In the tool palette, click the foreground color
swatch to open the Color Picker, select white from the palette,
and click OK. Then select the paint bucket tool and click the
canvas to fill Layer 2 with white. Drag Layer 2 between Layer 1
and the Background layer in the Layers palette.
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distracting, we
created a iayer of
white to serve as
a replacement.
Bye-Bye, Background To get rid of the
background, select the magnetic lasso tool. In the tool
options palette, check the Anti-aliased box and enter 1 in the
Feather field. If the subject’s coloring is similarto that of its
background, enter between 1 and 3 percent in the Edge Contrast field;
use a higher percentage if they contrast more sharply. Then select
Layer 1 and carefully click around the subject’s edges until you’ve fully
selected it (the lasso’s selection lines will snap onto the edges). When
finished, select Inverse from the Select menu to change the selection
from subject to background, and press Delete to banish it; this will
reveal the clean
white backdrop
underneath.
Use the eraser
tool to remove
residual gunk.
Using the
magnetic lasso
tool is one of
the easiest and
quickest ways to
separate subject
from background.
Create a Silhouette Select the magic
wand tool, set Tolerance to 1, and click Layer I’s
nonexistent background to select it all. From the
Select menu, choose Inverse to reverse the selection
onto the entire subject. Choose black as the foreground color,
and then create a new layer (Layer 3). From the Edit menu,
select Fill, and in the resulting dialog, click OK to create a
black silhouette in the form of your subject. Drag Layer 3
between Layer
1 and Layer 2
in the Layers
palette.
To make
a realistic
shadow,
create a black
silhouette in
the subject’s
form.
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY KRIS FONG
HOWTO 73
4 Cast the Shadow Select Layers (the silhouette/
shadow). From the Edit menu, select Transform, then Distort;
a bounding box surrounds the shape (currently concealed by
the real subject). Grab the box*s top-center handle and drag
it In the direction opposite your subject's light source. For example,
if there’s a highlight on the right side of the subject, drag the box
handle left so that the light (coming from the right) appears to be
casting a shadow to the left. If the light source is high, drag the handle
downward to squash the form. Use the other handles to mold the
shadow in reference to the
light’s direction. If there’s no
detectable light source, cast
the shadow in any direction
you please. Double-click
inside the bounding box to
apply the transformation.
Add realism by distorting the
shadow so that Its ultimate
shape responds directly to
the subject’s lighting.
Add blur to soften the
shadow’s edges, and then
lower the opacity to give it
some translucency.
Senior Editor Kris Fong woke
up this morning and saw her
shadow— darn broken blinds.
5 Make It Shady To add realism, from the
Filter menu select Blur, then Gaussian Blur, In the
resulting dialog, check the Preview box. Move the
Radius slider until the shadow edges are soft but not
overdistorted so that the subject looks disconnected from the
shadow. When satisfied, click OK. In the Layers palette, click
the Opacity triangle and move the resulting slider down until
you get a complementary gray
shading. Use the move tool to
make final adjustments. When
satisfied, select Flatten Image
from the Layers menu and
save your file.
CAST SOME SHADY
CHARACTERS
How you cast a shadow can change the look and
mood of a photo, giving you the opportunity
to flex your creative muscle. Here are a few
examples of alternative ways to cast shadows.
Slim Shady To create a shadow
that looks as if it’s cast by the
afternoon sun, flip the shadow
layer vertically (Edit > Transform >
Flip Vertical), and then use the
Distort function to streeeetch
the silhouette.
Bunny Rabbit This
one’s a classic. Make
a peace sign with
one hand in front of
a light source (old
film projectors are a
favorite), and view your
work on an opposing
wall or screen.
Dark Shadow Stretching the silhouette and keeping
the opacity higher creates an intriguing film-noir
shadow (especially if you convert the image to black
and white). Using the Distort function, squash down
the shadow and elongate the sides dramatically.
Role Reversal Make a photo interesting by flipping the
shadow horizontally (Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal),
and then separating it from the subject so that It becomes
a stand-alone item. For added appeal, manipulate the
shadow so that it appears to interact with the subject.
April 2003 MacAddict 73
74 /I howto
/ ^ Ir create a Video CD
Create a
Video CD
by Robert Capps
WHAT YOU NEED
• Roxio Toast 5.1 .2 or later
($99.95, www.roxio.com)
• CD-RW burner
• iMovie
• VCD Builder (optional, free,
http://homepage.mac.com/johan)
pple's Final Cut Pro, iDVD, and SuperDrive, and Discreet’s
Cleaner are all kickin’ tools and nice to have, but we
don’t need such hoity-toity wares. We’re Mac addicts,
after all. We’re crafty. We’re innovators. We’re problem solvers.
We’re, well. ..at least some of us are poor. Lucky for us there’s an
inexpensive yet underutilized alternative to authoring and burning
your own DVDs: authoring and burning your own Video CDs.
Video CDs (or VCDs) are well-known in almost every part of the
world except the United States. Thanks to its
worldwide popularity, most home DVD players
can also play the lower-resolution VCD format.
It’s not a much-ballyhooed feature In America,
but if you bought your DVD player in the last
Can’t afford a DVD burner? Make a VCD that can play in most home
DVD players or with a VCD player app on your Mac.
couple of years, odds are it plays VCDs— heck, it probably even
says so right on the front (if it doesn’t, check the manual).
This means you— with just iMovie, Toast, and a normal CD
burner, and without the expense of DVD authoring— can crank
out movie discs playable on most home DVD players. While you
can’t add all the interactivity DVDs offer (VCDs can include such
features, but currently no great Mac software exists to let you
tap their full potential), you can at least make multiple-sequence
VCDs with a simple freeware program called VCD Builder, which
enables you to skip around your disc with the controls on your
DVD player. The best part is that building VCDs is easy, just
follow along.
ON THE
DISC
VCD Builder 1.1,
MacVCD 3.2.1, and
MacVCOX 4.1.6
I Make Your Movie Start by making a movie in iMovie.
Keep in mind that CD-Rs can accommodate a little more than
an hour of VCD video, so watch your final time total as you
edit. If you want to make a VCD with a title screen and multiple
sequences, create each sequence as a completely separate iMovie
project. In other words, edit just your opening title sequence and save it
as project 1. Then start a new project, edit the first sequence or chapter
of your movie, and save it as project 2, and so on. Name your projects
sequentially so you know which one’s which. If you don’t want multiple
sequences, just create one project.
You don’t need iMovie to make a VCD, but if you want to
give your movies a polished look, nothing’s easier to use.
2 Pop It into Toast Toast Titanium
5.1.2 and later automatically installs an export
plug-in into iMovie for making VCDs. If all
you want is a VCD movie (without any fancy-
shmancy sequence tracks), simply select Export Movie
from iMovie’s File menu (multisequence moviemakers,
skip ahead to step 3). In the resulting dialog, select To
QuickTime from the Export pop-up menu, and choose
Toast Video CD (NTSC) from the Formats pop-up menu.
Click Export, and in the resulting dialog, name your movie,
choose where you want to save the file, and click Save;
iMovie will compress your movie, and then launch Toast to
burn the disc. Finally, just click Record to create the VCD.
Export Movie
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an iMovie export plug-in to make VCDs;
just click Export to start the process.
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HOWTO 75
Send the Sequences to Toast If you want to
make a multisequence VCD with a title screen, open the first
of your iMovie projects and select Export Movie from the File
menu. In the resulting dialog, select To QuickTime from the
Formats pop-up menu, select Toast Video CD (NTSC) from the Formats
pop-up, and click Export. In the resulting dialog, give the movie a name
followed by a number (1, in this case) to keep the sequence intact,
choose a location, and click Save; iMovie will compress the movie and
then launch Toast. Don’t burn the VCD yet; instead, launch your second
project and repeat this step, saving the exported file in the same
location as the first. Repeat with your remaining projects.
Wait— don’t touch that red
button yet! If you want to create a
multisequence VCD, export all your
movies first before burning the disc.
4 Build the Framework To enable viewers to
navigate through your sequences, use VCD Builder to put
the framework together (you need OS X to run the software).
This app allows you to create an opening title or menu screen
that tethers together all of your movie sequences, allowing viewers to
use their DVD player remotes to skip through sequences or call up any
sequence or chapter numerically. Fire up the application. In the opening
dialog, select the template that matches the number of sequences you
have, and click Create.
0 O C Qeate From Template
Menu and 1 Sequence
Menu and 2 Se
Menu and 3 Sequences
Menu and A Sequences
I Menu and 5 Sequences
Use this template to create a
VCD with a main menu and
( Close ^
Depending on
which of VCD
Builder's prefab
templates
you pick, the
framework of
your VCD can
be simple or
complex.
5 Sequence Your Sections The blank
template window opens, featuring a series of screens
to add your movie sequences or graphics. The menu
screen is labeled “1” at the top of the window; drag
and drop any title-type graphic file onto it to add (VCD Builder
supports most common image formats). Then drag and drop
your QuickTime movie sections, matchingthe sequences to
the appropriate boxes in the window. When everything is in
place, save your project. Click the Burn VCD button on the main
interface; the app scans and converts the media, creates the
requisite VCD disk images, and then launches Toast.
VCD Builder lets you piece together a title screen
(top box) and multiple movie sections into one
VCD opus.
6 Track and Burn In the Toast window, click and hold
the Other button and select Multitrack CD-ROM XA from
the drop-down menu. Your disk image files should already
be loaded in Toast’s window— if they’re not, drag and drop
the VCD Builder disk-image files you created into the Toast window.
Then select Record, and presto— your multitrack VCD should be
ready in a few minutes (depending on your CD-RW’s write speed).
Be aware that some DVD players may be finicky about playing
multisequence VCDs, but in our tests the VCDs played fine on a range
of models. VCDs are also cross-platform; apps such as Mireth’s
MacVCD ($19.99, www.mlreth.com) and Windows Media Player (free,
www.microsoft.com) can play VCD-formatted movies, so you can
distribute yours to all the neighborhood Mac users and PC punks.
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to use Toast’s Video
CD option — but trust
us, use Multitrack
CD-ROM XA if you
want a multitrack VCD.
/,^K Robert Capps Is
sure all the VCDs he
bought in Asia are fully
authorized, legal products.
Just like the *"Roiexx” he
bought in Nepal.
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brother is a Mac wiz. He took
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Alas, this story has a sad
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I love your magazine, but
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advertisements. It wouldn’t hurt
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your features.— 5/7ciron Solomon
Since 62.5 percent of the
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come up with something. In the
meantime, our February 2003
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mention Oprah.— Max
FROM THE HORSE'S
MOUTH
In your article “IBM
Chip Tempts Apple”
(Get Info, Feb/03, pl2),
you state, “Motorola
has been the sole
supplier of top-end
Apple microprocessors
since 1984.” That’s
notthe case. IBM
supplied the original
601 and many (if not
most) of Apple’s high-
end processors until
at least 1995 or 1996.
IBM also supplied
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end microprocessors. Were
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have spent a lot more time in
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the PowerMac''
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A STAR IS BORN
Great movie, Roxanne {Inside the
New Power Mac G4, Dec/02, on
the Disc). You did an awesome
job of showing off the insides
of that new Power Mac G4,
especially the PRAM battery. It
makes me want to go out and
buy one\— Andy Hoffman
Great, now she’s goingto
want to renegotiate her zero-
compensation contract— Max
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WORLDWIDE WHOOPS
February 2003’s Quick Tips (p6) referred us to page 54 to find out
how to revive an old Webcam, but I don’t see any information on
Webcams there. What gwesl— Chris Eschweiler
That Q&A from February 2003's Ask Us (p54) hit the cuttlng^room
floor at the last minute. Here’s the info you’re looking for.— Max
Are there any inexpensive Webcams
that work with Mac OS X?
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Products Guide (http://guide.apple.com),
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ambient light sensor that controls the new
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however, is but one of many ideas explored in
Apple's secret labs. Here are a few others that
had less-than-happy endings, and why they were
ultimately thrown— rather violently, we might
add— back to the drawing board.
Critical-Need Sensor
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temperature of your fingertips
as you type, this technology
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pressed for time and/
brare excessively
stressed, and then
quits applications,
creates inexplicable error
messages, and automatically
shuts down your Mac.
Reason for rejection This
effect was discovered to exist
already without requiring its own
dedicated technology.
Get- Over- it- Already
Sensor
This sensor was developed in the hopes of
liberating Webmasters forced to moderate
the self-righteous ranting of Web denizens
who need to get a life. If a user remains on
an opinion forum for more than one hour,
types the same complaint more than ten
times, or drools on his or her keyboard
for any reason, a giant, electric-green,
flashing, siren-enhanced dialog appears
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GET OVER IT ALREADY AND GO ON A DATE,
FORCHRIS5AKES!”
Reason for rejection Geeky developers
had to abandon work on this sensor
early on in the testing cycle due to
plummeting self-esteem.
Ambient Food-in-
Keyboard Sensor
Inspired by the popular board game
Perfection, this sensor detects food
lodged beneath and between keys on
your keyboard. At lower levels of
gunkification, the key most impacted
by consumables pops off, allowing you to
clean. lf the total amount of food exceeds 4
ounces, however, the entire keyboard pops
up and, in an explosion of laser-etched key
caps and last year's bologna, sends both
keys and crumbs a-flyin'.
Reason for rejection Unnerving element
of surprise caused myocardial infarctions
in several cholesterol-challenged
test subjects.
Retinal-Longevity Sensor
This technology flashes a “look away”
warning onscreen if it senses that you
haven’t blinked in 15 minutes. Apple
engineers discovered that among the
Images that made users immediately
avert their eyes, the most effective was
the Political Indignitaries Collection:
an unwaxed former Secretary of State
Madeline Albright in a Brazilian-cut bikini,
Vice President Dick Cheney in camouflage
thong underwear on a Kuwaiti beach, and
former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
naked on a cold day.
Reason for rejection Cheney threatened to
sue, clalmingthe underwear that Apple
Can we get
that soprano
sax made in an
aluminum alloy
to match?
Photoshopped on him “made my butt look
as big as the Capitol dome.”
Aurai-Integrity Sensor
This sensor identifies CDs you insert into
your Mac and categorizes them into one of
three categories: OK, Crap, and Whoever
Made This Should Be Shot. Music labeled
as OK plays normally, and Crap is ejected
unplayed. However, music in the WMTSBS
category (Including Phantom of the Opera
remixes, mass-produced kiddie pop,
and Luxembourgian patho-goregrind
metal) causes the drive to perform a disc
meltdown “for your own good.”
Reason for rejection In a trial run using
Kenny G's The Moment CD, the test Mac
combusted instantly, singeingthe eyebrows
ofthe hapless developerwho had inserted
the offending pabulum. Further testing was
thought to be unsafe.
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